interview by Brett Larner translated by Brett Larner and Mika Tokairin Running in miserable conditions at the 2010 Tokyo Marathon, Arata Fujiwara came 2nd for the second time in his career. The next day, a badly limping Fujiwara generously met with JRN at a favorite bar of his to talk about the race, training, future, and what went wrong and right. Part one of the post-race interview focused on this year's race. Part two, below, talks about Fujiwara's motivations, his training for Tokyo, and the Japanese corporate running system compared with the situation in Africa, Europe and the United States. Click here for Fujiwara's three-part pre-race interview. In 2008 Tokyo didn’t have prize money, so this was your first time really running for it. Did it make a difference? Yeah, when there’s prize money you have more guts. This time, in the last 2 km there was a negotiation between my legs and the prize money. (laughs) I got the ‘go’ sign. Having prize money encoura...
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