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Entries Tagged as 'keirin'

turn left at kissena

June 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · races, training

“You’re Japanese, you have to do it.”

It was the default nationality reasoning, which, when you happen to be Japanese, gets applied too often to activities that normal people just wouldn’t choose to engage in. Raving? Cosplay? Zentai? Yup, yup, and yup [and no, I did not do all of the above].

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keirin diet

August 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · food

The first time I saw a pair of rollers under someone, I was too interested in horses to remember much of it.

It was on a Japanese TV show featuring an array of late teens and twenty-somethings who were venturing out into interesting careers. A jockey and a keirin racer were featured together; and having dreamed [...]

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