While boat racing, also known as “kyotei,” is popular in Japan, it remains little known outside the country. The initiative intends to draw inbound visitors to the races at night, which would ...

Hi, I`m Lowell, a 69-year-old rookie sailor and a never-too-later! I had an aspiration to sail across an ocean solo before I die. I am a Canadian living in Japan, and in 2019, I purchased Wahine, a ...

Surrounded by the sea and blessed with numerous rivers and marshes, Japan is home to many festivals featuring boat racing. Among its oldest, the ancient morotabune ritual of Miho Shrine in Shimane ...

A traditional Chinese dragon boat race was held in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong to promote exchanges between Japan and China.

The Sun Life Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Races, co-organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) and the Hong Kong ...

It also echoes the popularity of American college football or the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, because the teams are drawn from the best athletes at 20 Japanese universities (plus a 21 st team ...