The Hakone Ekiden, which ran on 2 and 3 January, has a lot to tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese culture. By Joji Sakurai Under Mount Fuji’s gaze, the runner from Meiji University ...

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

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 ...

Results for the 2026 Guam Ko'ko' Road Race Ekiden Relay were updated following a review of chip timing data, according to the ...

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 ...

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 – ...

When people mention running relays, it’s likely that your first thoughts are of athletes sprinting round a running track for either 100m or 400m. But there does exist another type of relay. It can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Palette, will serve as a medical support vehicle in January at the Hakone Ekiden, one of the nation’s most celebrated ...