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Higashi-Omi, Japan — He's a familiar face on Japanese residential roads — a cherubic yet intense cartoon boy, with helmet hair and enormous beady black eyes, body tensed and ready to dart out into ...

Running in Asian countries has developed strongly in recent years. In countries like Japan or China, new major running events ...

Japanese walking involves alternating between slow and fast walking every three minutes for half an hour, offering both short bursts of intense exercise and gentler movement. Running may offer ...

Walking has long carried the reputation of being too easy to count as real exercise. Many people only measure a workout’s value by how breathless or sore it leaves them, which is why running often ...

Running in the great outdoors occasionally means coming into contact with wildlife—some harmless, some concerning. A race last weekend in Kokonoe, a small town in Japan’s Kusu district, was canceled ...

So you’re looking to increase your cardiovascular endurance, and you don’t know whether to prioritize running or the Japanese Interval Walking Training (IWT) method that’s growing in popularity right ...