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ON THE SHONAN COAST, Japan — In summer, the action gets going at four in the morning. Men and women in black wetsuits begin to appear, lugging their boards on foot or tucked into special bike racks.

This man is known as a godfather of Japanese surf culture: 78-year-old Teruo Adegawa. The Olympics coming to his doorstep to host its inaugural surfing competition was set to be a once in a lifetime ...

Just over three weeks away from the long awaited pandemic delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, surf is on the horizon as the celebrated island sport will make its debut in the summer games with a party of ...

Surfing makes its Olympic debut next year at Chiba’s Ichinomiya beach but for many Japanese it is the Shonan coast, 50 kilometres south of Tokyo, that is regarded as the birthplace of the country’s ...

Australian-born surfer Connor O’Leary said on Wednesday he had been selected for the Japan team for the Paris 2024 Olympics, after officially switching his allegiance to the country of his mother’s ...

(ATR) Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich takes home gold at the ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan. This is Mulanovich’s second gold medal after winning at the 2004 edition of the Games in Ecuador. "This ...

In 2011, Japan was rocked by a 9.0 undersea earthquake and resulting tsunami. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the waves it generated spanned up to 30-feet high before ...

Surfing's Olympic dreams take another step closer to coming true in Japan this week, with Mathea Olin and many more ready for the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games presented by Vans. The World Surfing ...