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Sachiko Yamashita Steps Down from Daiichi Seimei

On Oct. 1 the Daiichi Seimei corporate team announced that executive advisor and special head coach Sachiko Yamashita had retired from the company at the end of October. Yamashita, 61, was born in 1964. After working as a teacher she joined the corporate leagues as an athlete, going on to take silver in the marathon at the 1991 Tokyo World Championships. A year later she was 4th in the Barcelona

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Weekend Track Roundup

The Tokyo World Athletics Championships might have just ended, but there’s still a lot of track action happening in Japan with some late-season championships and pre-ekiden season time trial meets.The highlight at the Sept. 24 Kizuna Time Trials meet in Machida in western Tokyo was a solid 13:34.01 win in the fast heat by collegiate marathon record holder Asahi Kuroda (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.), not