In the beginning of March the International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team visited Tokyo in response to the bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics by the city of Tokyo and the Japanese Olympic Committee. In spite of the bid for…
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High school baseball madness in Japan
In Japan, high school baseball (高校野球 koukou yakyuu) is taken quite serious and two annual tournaments are held nationwide. The 夏の甲子園 or “Summer Koushien” can be seen as the National High School Baseball Championship which crowns the best high-school team…
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Tagged with: baseball, High school baseball in Japan, Japan, the National High School Baseball Championship
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Posted in Japanese, sports
Running events in Japan
Last weekend I ran the Akabane Half-Marathon and as this has been my first participation in a larger running event (besides joining an Ekiden run) in Japan I thought it might be useful to summarize how things are different from…
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Posted in Japanese, sports
Posted in Japanese, sports
Basic skills and their change with time
When I was I child being able to ride a bicycle or swim were two of many skills each kid had to demonstrate. I was growing up on the countryside and such skills were something essential if you wanted to…
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Train straps in Japan
When you ride on a train or subway in Japan, the chances to find an empty seat during commuting hours are similar to finding an ice bear in the desert. Thus, most people are standing in the train car. However,…
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My new bicycle
I was thinking what I buy myself for my birthday this month. Long time I thought that a smartphone might be a good thing to purchase, but the increased monthly telephone bill did not really convince me to go and…
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Toilet games
Japan is famous for computer games and two of the three large video game console companies comes from here. Sega which had a console in the past is still active in developing video games. But beside video games, Japan is…
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Blue zones
Following a description by Dan Buettner a “Blue Zone” is a demographic and/or geographic area where people live measurably longer than in the rest of the world. Buettner identified the following longevity areas Sardinia, Italy Nicoya, Costa Rica Ikaria, Greece…
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Running event entry slots
Yesterday I got an email saying that my number was not drawn in the lottery of the Tokyo Marathon 2012 (chances were around 10% or less to get one of the slots for that event). As I already expected this…
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