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Remember doing archery back in summer camp, or maybe from your school days? They gave you those red plastic bows and cheap arrows and let you fire them into styrofoam targets and for the first time in your young life you felt like a MAN!...
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Keirin, meaning “racing wheels”, is a track cycling event that originated in Japan in 1948 and gained Olympic status at the 2000 Sydney games.
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i, cjw has posted yet another epic tale of mountaineering, this time at Hyakumeizan with the usual collection of amazing photographs. You have to see the shot of the lone climber walking right through an avalanche zone.
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If you have the opportunity to go to sumo, do it! Even if you think it might not might be your cup of tea, it will be a great cultural experience and you'll get to see your fellow Japanese spectators in a more relaxed and drunken atmosphere. Check out the sumo video I put together of my trip to th
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The 17-year-old, already one of Japan's biggest sporting celebrities, finished tied for 13th to pass the "million dollar" barrier and shatter Shigeki Maruyama's record.
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Cool customized bikes from Japan known as "Dekochari".
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The WBC returns next year, but some are less than enthusiastic about this international baseball contest.
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In what were supposed to be try-outs for her brother, a young 16 year old steals the show and becomes the first female, as well as the youngest participant, to win her place in this all male sport in Japan. With a throw that carries speeds of 100kph and more, you certainly can't argue with decisio
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A new entertainment field. One man, a few spectators, lots of bruises.
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Sorry for my lateness! The Kyushu basho is alive and kicking and I've got the low down over at Chirmotsumoreba!
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Kind of a follow up to kame's post on Rikki Kasso's work. This photo essay by Kasso is taken from Magnifisense Magazine and features the young boys who take up sumo as their lifestyle early on.
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Apparently part of the defense was that the men were incapable of disobeying their trainer's orders. As much as "following orders" is a pathetic excuse most of the time, if these guys had been conditioned in a stable in which this kind of torture was regular, they may have had a point - only a s
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Tokyo's local international ultimate frisbee team, named Iku!, had it's annual HAT tournament at Mizumoto Park. Around 40 people of diverse nationalities came out to play in this friendly-level tournament. Photo gallery of the action included.
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The 2008 Olympic held in Beijing China was a spectacular once in a lifetime experience but as the games move unto London in 2012 the process for selecting to host country for the games in 2016 is already underway. The four cities shortlisted earlier this year that are now competing for the honour a
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Funny you should Soc this Deas, I wrote about Osamu Tezuku, the creator of Astro...Cheers man....They had this stuf back in the UK years ago.... Fuggle's Ale I think it was called....LOL The "Story" section reads like a bunch of synopses I've read by...The story is almost always mentioned using its Japanese title, so it might be the...Actually, that's a really interesting discussion to be had. In FACT I reckon in...Does "Snow White" in Japanese have the same Disney movie conotation that...Ha ha - I just found this. Awesome. Selling snowmen to the Japanese. People buy...I'll try it if I can get my hands on it....Not quite as bad as Nakashima Mika's version (honestly what could be?), but...
