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In October 1996 the Lake Biwa Museum opened in Oroshimo, Japan after 10 years of planing and construction. It is a most ambitious concept and a very impressive facility. By June of 1997 it had attracted almost 800 000 visitors — almost twice the attendance predicted for the entire first year of operation.
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Noakes, D.L.G. (1998). A new perspective on lakes: Kawanabe’s latest achievements. In: Yuma, M., Nakamura, I., Fausch, K.D. (eds) Fish biology in Japan: an anthology in honour of Hiroya Kawanabe. Developments in environmental biology of fishes, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9016-7_33
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