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MARATHON

Japan Times
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May 22, 2013
Injuries gave marathon runner Noguchi valuable lessons about training
Lightly laughing, Mizuki Noguchi insisted that aging isn't necessarily so bad.
EDITORIALS
May 2, 2013
The Boston bombings
Investigators continue to fill in the blanks, but one large question continues to hang over the terror attack during the Boston Marathon on April 15: Why?
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2013
The paradox of the Boston bombing
Essentially the Boston bombers' stories are not so different from those of America's home-grown 'lone wolves' — typically white and equally disenchanted.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 29, 2013
Photos of carnage would check war sentiment
Would most Americans remain indifferent to the wars their government wages in far-off lands if their media broadcast videos each day of the shattered bodies?
Japan Times
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Apr 28, 2013
Takahashi opposes reducing marathon selections for IAAF World Championships
Sydney Olympic gold medal-winning marathoner Naoko Takahashi has an objection, saying a Japan Association of Athletics Federations decision takes irreplaceable opportunities away from the runners.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2013
Attack will prove urban resiliency
Cities exist to connect humanity and to enable us to work collaboratively. Those connections only strengthen when we are attacked as the Boston Marathon was.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2013
Unique vulnerability of the Boston Marathon
There is something unique about the vulnerability of marathoners and their supporters, emotional and physical, especially at the finish line and especially in Boston.
Japan Times
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Mar 9, 2013
Noguchi fired up ahead of Nagoya Marathon
Athens Olympics gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi says she has overcome her latest fitness setback and is determined to rebound with victory at the Nagoya Women's Marathon on Sunday.
Japan Times
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Feb 25, 2013
Kimetto targets world record after setting Tokyo mark
Kenya's Dennis Kimetto sets a Tokyo Marathon record, winning the race in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 50 seconds on Sunday.
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Feb 23, 2013
Tokyo makes World Marathon Majors debut
The Tokyo Marathon will make its debut as a World Marathon Majors race Sunday with a potential race record in store in the men's competition.
Japan Times
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Feb 4, 2013
Kawauchi wins Beppu-Oita Marathon
Yuki Kawauchi outdueled London Olympian Kentaro Nakamoto to win Sunday's Beppu-Oita Marathon in a race-record time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 15 seconds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Feb 24, 2012
Tech for keeping pace with the marathon trendsetters
Technology in the form of everything from to e-cash to purpose-built apps is coming to the aid of runners in the annual Tokyo Marathon.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2011
Justifying an intervention in Libya for justice' sake
MELBOURNE — The world has watched in horror as Libya's Colonel Moammar Gadhafi uses his military to attack protesters opposed to his rule, killing hundreds or possibly thousands of unarmed civilians.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 21, 2011
Music makes bananas fit for the long run
Yes, Tokyo Marathon runners, we have musically enhanced 'sports bananas.'
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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