"Running Boy" was born in 1973, when road fatalities in Japan had soared to an all-time high. The social welfare office of Higashi-Omi, a city of about 100,000 outside Kyoto, asked a local sign maker ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are a lot of night runners out there. More so then you might imagine, and the popularity seems to be increasing. One of the huge reasons that brings the runner out after dark is the sake of ...