Shizo Kanakuri—sometimes Romanized as Kanaguri—was one of only two athletes representing Japan at the games of the fifth Olympiad in Stockholm, which was the first to feature Japanese competitors. His ...

Running a marathon is considered by many as the ultimate endurance of the human body. Forget ordinary people, trained runners have to push their limits to complete a marathon. It can take hours for a ...

We all have started on some task or set a goal for ourselves that we didn’t complete. Sometimes we lose interest or don’t have the willpower to keep going. And sometimes, we just forget about the task ...

Reaching the Olympic starting line took weeks. Finding the finish took decades. And in between, the young long-distance runner — considered the “father of the marathon” in Japan — seemingly ...

On Day 2 of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Gujarat, he and PM Narendra Modi jointly launched the high-speed bullet train project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai which is expected to be ...

The Sena, in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', sought to know if the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed train project really fits into the needs of the country. Advisory Alert: It has come to our ...