By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa, Japan For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains ... was left by a passing god of Japan’s native Shinto belief.

said that "Climate change and global warming are becoming evident on the lake." Legend has it that Omiwatari is the route Takeminakata, the male god of the Suwa Taisha shrine complex's Kamisha ...