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http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/athletics/news/20120511-OHT1T00217.htm translated by Brett Larner London Olympics men's marathon team member Arata Fujiwara  (30, Miki House) attended an Olympic sendoff party held by his alma mater Takushoku University in Tokyo on May 11 together with his fellow Olympic marathoner Kentaro Nakamoto  (29, Team Yasukawa Denki), one year below him at Takushoku.  The pair vowed to work together to target the top. As students at Takushoku Fujiwara and Nakamoto were roommates.  "He is a great role model.  Standing on the same starting line at the Olympics, I want to work together," Nakamoto declared.  Fujiwara told the party's attendees with conviction, "Nakamoto wasn't really an athlete you would have noticed, but I always thought he was going to become strong.  We're going to focus everything we have and aim for the top." The pair received advice and encouragement from Takushoku alumnus Shuichi Yoneshige  (50...

http://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2010/01/27/0002669025.shtml http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2010/01/27/04.html http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/etc/news/20100126-OHT1T00224.htm http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/tm/2010/news/20100126-OYT1T01262.htm translated and edited by Brett Larner Toshihiko Seko and Takeyuki Nakayama, Jan. 26 at Tokyo Midtown. Click photos for full-sized versions. For the first time since their glory days in the 80's, two of Japan's greatest marathoners, Toshihiko Seko (53) and Takeyuki Nakayama (50) appeared together in public Jan. 26 at Tokyo Midtown. The two former rivals gave a two-way discussion of Japanese men's marathoning as part of the Tokyo Marathon Tune-Up Week series of events promoting the Feb. 28 2010 Tokyo Marathon. Both Seko and Nakayama ran the 1988 Seoul Olympic marathon. When Seko was injured and unable to run in the Olympic selection race at the 1987 Fukuoka International Marathon but was given special clearance by Rikuren to r...