Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Samuel Wansiru, the Kenyan marathon runner that won a gold medal on the last day of the Beijing Olympics, took some time to speak to the Japanese press in Japanese after completing the race on Sunday: Wansiru moved to Japan from his native Kenya and studied at Sendai Ikuei High School in Miyagi Prefecture, where [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... the Toyota Kyushu team in Fukuoka recently after completing his secondary school education at the Sendai Ikue High School in Sendai prefecture (province).Fuchiki is Wanjiru's personal coach while Mayaka, who has been living in Japan for the last 20 years and currently an international athletes' representative."We discussed that if the pace was slow, then he would go fast because if...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... spent much of the past six years living in Japan. He first went there to study at a high school in Sendai, but he still spends part of each year training in Kenya, where yesterday's success in the green, red and black vest of his homeland was of huge national significance.At the turn of the year, Kenya's running community was caught up in the tribal violence which erupted in the wake of...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... ceremony. To Chinese and Japanese, Ai Fukuhara is Japan’s Yao Ming in China. Ai was born at Sendai city of Japan. Sendai is a small and quiet city compares to Tokyo or Osaka, but it is famous in China. One of famous Chinese writer, Lu Xun, once studied in a medical school at the city. One of his article about his Japanese teacher of the school, was so popular among Chinese people...
