How do you promote cycle racing, a sport that rarely gets much of a look-in from the baseball-obsessed media? Easy. You sex things up and push cute girls to the forefront. Girl's Keirin is a ...
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Nike is opening a women-only sports space in Shibuya for the spring. Opening March 3rd at a location nine minutes' walk from Shibuya Station, Nike Women's Studio features a basement training ...
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Google has shared shared the top search terms in Japan for 2014. Here are the top search terms, which were of course originally in Japanese and so vary slightly from the translation or English ...
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We were pointed to this neat Kickstarter campaign for Runbell. The project offers "frustration free urban running". As keen joggers ourselves, we certainly sympathize with its aims. Ever been ...
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Have our worst dreams come true? After ASEAN, will the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games feature a battalion of skimpily clad, underage girls representing Japan?! This nightmare ...
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A football match on Saturday between the Urawa Reds, a major soccer team in the J-League Division 1 based in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, and Sagan Tosu, was marred by a banner hung at the venue ...
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Scuba divers ordinarily use hand signals to communicate underwater but thanks to Casio Yamagata's Logosease, now they can talk to each other almost as if they are walking on dry ground. All you need ...
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Thank God for hipsters. When all else fails and the media is amok with already notorious reports (supported by dubious stats) that Japanese people apparently no longer have sex, you can always at ...
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For some people, the best reward in life are sweets. Pleasure-seeking as we all are, marathon runners are no exception. Sponsored by International Sports Marketing, Sweets Marathon might sound like a ...
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In general, most Japanese people are known as hard workers. While work, by definition, is something we do to make a living, the great majority of salarymen in Japan seem to consider their work to be ...
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Japan has got its knickers in a twist over a French newspaper's satirical cartoon that shows two emaciated wrestlers facing up for a bout in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with the Fukushima reactors ...
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While the weekend was all about the announcement that Tokyo would host the Olympic Games in 2020 -- the city's second bid and ultimately its second time to host -- some netizens and keen-eyed manga ...
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In less than two weeks, we will find out the host city for the 2020 Olympics. Will Tokyo make it? With each city holding its own strength and weakness, I still don't think that we have come up ...
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No cheap all-you-can-drink all-nighters with friends rammed into a tiny booth, belting out Bon Jovi et al. They do things a bit differently in Ginza. Ginza 111 (apparently pronounced "Triple ...
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Today the FIFA Club World Cup will be kicking off here in Tokyo and Yokohama. One of the sponsors, Sony, has a cool smartphone app that allows fans to show their support for their team in an ...
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