Lake Biwa canal

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Lake Biwa canal
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The Lake Biwa canal opens the shipping service which connects Lake Biwa and Uji-gawa
to Kyoto which declines by the transfer of the capital,
It is an enterprise referred to as using for hydraulic power, irrigation, etc.
simultaneously, trying to plan industrial development of Kyoto,
and leading a canal from Lake Biwa, It is said that he was the first carpenter as construction performed only by the Japanese engineer
who started construction work in 1885 and saw completion at last in 1894.