Tag: Tokyo

What Is The Scale Of The Longest Swim?

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Benoît Lecomte undertakes The Longest Swim from Tokyo to San Francisco later this year, he is going to embark on the longest time in the water of any human in history over the 6-month period of the ordeal. Lecomte summarized his training, "[It involves] many years of preparation. It is more than just

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Tokyo’s Newest Beach, 50 Years In The Making

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Tokyo metropolitan government will open a swimming beach at Kasai Rinkai Park (葛西臨海公園) this weekend - for the first time in 50 years - as a pilot program to see if there is demand for a beach in central Tokyo, a megalopolis of nearly 32 million people. Since the 1960s, there had been a significant

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Thar She Blows

Photos and video courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. The Japanese Coast Guard is documenting the growth of a small, but growing, volcanic island of Nishinoshima, 1000 km south of Tokyo. Daily eruptions, now occurring 5-6 times per minute, on the volcano continues to add increasing size to the island located 1000 km south of Tokyo.

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