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(in Japanese) The Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport - Significant Lakes of Japan (in Japanese) Wikipedia - List of lakes in Japan This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Nakaumi (中海) literally means "middle sea". Even though Nakaumi is a lake, it was likely named a sea because of its saline water and proximity to the actual sea. In Japanese, the lake is usually referred to simply as Nakaumi, not as Nakaumi-ko (Lake Nakaumi). [citation needed]
The lake is located within the borders of Bandai-Asahi National Park. It is a surface area of 104 square kilometres (40 sq mi), circumference of 63 kilometres (39 mi), depth of 94 metres (308 ft) and is located at an altitude of 514 metres (1,686 ft). [2] In winter swans migrate to the beaches of the lake and stay there until spring.
The lake now also has rainbow trout, cherry salmon, carp, Carassius, and Japanese eel. The surrounding forests are temperate-deciduous and are primarily Erman’s birch and Siebold’s beech. The lake was selected by the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Osaka Mainichi Shimbun [9] as one of the Eight Scenic Views of Japan in 1927.
Lake Biwa is an ancient lake, over 4 million years old. [1] It is estimated to be the 13th oldest lake in the world. [4] Because of its proximity to the country's historical capital Kyoto, references to Lake Biwa appear frequently in Japanese literature, particularly in poetry and in historical accounts of battles.
Lake Suwa is the site of a natural phenomenon known as the "God's Crossing" (御神渡り, o-miwatari), large cracks that form in the winter across the surface of the frozen lake. A vertical temperature gradient results in ice pressure ridges forming in the surface ice, reaching heights of 30 centimetres (1 ft) or more.
The origin of Lake Mashū's name is unclear. The lake's original Ainu name was Kintan-kamuy-to or lake of the mountain god. Ainu language researcher Nagata Housei proposed that the Japanese name originated from the Ainu Mas-un-to or lake of the gulls. [7] This was then rendered as Lake Mashin (魔神湖, Mashin-ko) by the Japanese.
Japanese experts inspect the scene of the alleged railway sabotage on South Manchurian Railway that led to the Mukden Incident and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. (from History of Japan ) Image 44 Prince Shōtoku was a semi-legendary regent of the Asuka period , and considered to be the first major sponsor of Buddhism in Japan.