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It’s been a week since the Great Hokkaido Earthquake. We are still experiencing aftershocks on a daily basis, but at a way lower frequency and way less intensity, which should hopefully mean it’s all calming down. We are okay here, and would like to express our sincere sympathy to those who are suffering and pray [...]

Last weekend saw a pretty big bike race happening in Hokkaido, which I participated in. It’s a new discipline called the pump track, where you pump and propel yourself through the bumpy track. And it’s actually the Japan round of a world series event run by Red Bull, under which about 20 races are being [...]

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There’s been lots of access to an episode about “alpinist” Nobukazu Kuriki I wrote in the past following his recent death. The impression I have about him hasn’t changed much since that day five years ago, remaining something like “Japan’s first serious alpine fraudster.” On the global scale there are others like Tomo Cesen who are subject [...]