Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sumo Wrestling History While Sumo, Japan’s national sport dates back 2000 years, it didn’t begin to flourish as a spectator sport until the early 1600s. Sumo is a full contact sport, where 2 wrestlers, known as Rikshiki compete to force one another out of the ring. While […]
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I Want To Ride My Bicycle
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! With the final of this year’s Tour de France approaching this weekend (Cavendish for the green jersey!), carbon guilt mounting and the last ditch attempt to get fit before summer holidays all in our mind right now, time is ripe for getting on your bike. Being based […]
Keep fit Japan style
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Back to school keep fit
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I remember standing on the school playing field two and a half years ago, waiting for Sports Day to begin. It was my second week in the job, and I didn’t really know what was going to happen. After a brief greeting by the headmaster, it was […]
A pre-soak soaking – hiking in the rain to Kurama Onsen
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Nothing beats a bath in the rain with a view
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sunday 1st November 2009: Another month, another bath! What better way to celebrate the turning of the calendar from October to November than a journey out to visit an onsen that has long captured my imagination and yet in 10 years of visiting Japan I had failed […]
Sumo in Autumn – secret tournaments for those in the know!
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sumo in Japan generally means one of two things; either timing your trip for one of the 6 major tournaments each year, or waking up at the crack of dawn to attend early morning sumo training at one of the sumo stables in Tokyo. However visitors to […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Sumo in Japan generally means one of two things; either timing your trip for one of the 6 major tournaments each year, or waking up at the crack of dawn to attend early morning sumo training at one of the sumo stables in Tokyo. However visitors to […]