ON THE SHONAN COAST, Japan — In summer, the action gets going at four in the morning. Men and women in black wetsuits begin to appear, lugging their boards on foot or tucked into special bike racks.

This man is known as a godfather of Japanese surf culture: 78-year-old Teruo Adegawa. The Olympics coming to his doorstep to host its inaugural surfing competition was set to be a once in a lifetime ...

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Just over three weeks away from the long awaited pandemic delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, surf is on the horizon as the celebrated island sport will make its debut in the summer games with a party of ...

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Japan. The home of sushi, the country of smiles. It’s formally known as the land of the rising sun, but Japan is also the land of another rising star. A star a little bit brighter than the sun, if ...

Japan. The home of sushi, the country of smiles. It’s formally known as the land of the rising sun, but it is also the land of another rising star. A star a little bit brighter than the sun, if that’s ...

ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Surfing makes its Olympic debut next year at Chiba’s Ichinomiya beach but for many Japanese it is the Shonan coast, 50 kilometres south of Tokyo, that is regarded as the ...