Toyota Motor Corp.’s next-generation electric vehicle, the e-Palette, will serve as a medical support vehicle in January at the Hakone Ekiden, one of the nation’s most celebrated university relay ...

KYOTO--With her team far behind, Sherry Drury took the “tasuki” sash in a national women’s ekiden long-distance relay race ...

The Hakone Ekiden is a marquee event on the annual athletic calendar in Japan. Taking place on January 2 and 3 each year, this long-distance relay race pits university men’s teams against each other ...

Hatsumōde (first shrine visit of the year), osechi (celebratory feast) and Hakone Ekiden (what some people call the greatest race on earth): These are three of the Japanese New Year’s traditions that ...

Each year amateur and professional teams of runners compete in various long-distance relay races called ekiden. The most prestigious of these is the grueling two-day Hakone Ekiden held on January 2 ...

Ekiden is a long-distance relay format that’s bigger than Godzilla in Japan but little known elsewhere. I’m invited as part of a 10-strong team jointly representing Runner’s World UK and JET alumni – ...

It is Sunday morning, Dec. 25, and all across Japan TV sets are tuned in to the spectacle of high school distance running championships held in the streets of Kyoto. Thousands of spectators line the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three weeks before the sternest physical challenge of my life, I was outside the Lululemon flagship store in ...