Retired sumo wrestler Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, who now heads the Hakkaku sumo school, rides a bike during a traffic safety seminar in Tokyo, Japan.
Tag Archives: japan
Pearl Harbor bike couriers 1941
December 7, 2011 – 8:00 am
Bike couriers delivered the news of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago today.
Japan cracks down on sidewalk cyclists
October 26, 2011 – 4:54 pm
Japan National Police Agency ordered to enforce bicycle sidewalk prohibitions.
Kirsten Dunst rides a bicycle
February 1, 2011 – 8:00 am
That creature in the pink skirt and blue hair is Kirsten Dunst in a cosplay outfit riding a bicycle across the crosswalk in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.
Charinko etymology and loan words
November 2, 2010 – 2:02 pm
Charinko ( チャリンコ ) is a Japanese word for “bicycle.” For years I’ve thought the shortened “chari” was a loan word from the English “chariot.” I was wrong.
Mamachari blog
November 1, 2010 – 3:18 pm
Three years ago, Shuichi Kobayashi was riding his ‘mamachari’ bicycle around Kyoto when a gaikokujin (foreigner) woman asked where she could buy one of the distinctively Japanese utility bikes. Today, he blogs about the “mama bicycle” to get the word out about these Japanese utility bicycles.
