This will be the 95th winter featuring the New Year¡¯s tradition ¡ª the Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race, or as it¡¯s more commonly known, the Hakone ekiden.
There¡¯s a story behind how the annual race came to be over a century ago.
Shiso Kanakuri was one of the world¡¯s elite marathon runners and had competed at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games as one of Japan¡¯s first-ever Olympic athletes.
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