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Haiji Kiyose (清瀬灰二, Kiyose Haiji) Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga [1] (Japanese); Blake Jackson [2] (English) Haiji is a 4th year Kansei University Student and a long time resident of Chikusei-so. He has dreams of running in the Hakone Ekiden with a team and slowly built up one of at-first unwilling acquaintances at the dorm.
Kanaguri was influenced by the success of the race and persuaded many universities that they should race in the Hakone Ekiden. As a result, Waseda University, Keio University, Meiji University and Tokyo Higher Normal School (now University of Tsukuba) replied to his offer and Hakone Ekiden started. Hakone Ekiden was started with great energy of ...
On the first Sunday of November, the men compete in the 8 stage, 106.8 kilometer National Collegiate Ekiden Championship in Aichi and Mie Prefectures. [4] This race is the second of the season's big three, the first being the Izumo Ekiden and the last being the Hakone Ekiden. Here, 27 teams battle for the national title.
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Hakone Town Hall Mount Fuji from Mount Kami in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Hakone (箱根町, Hakone-machi) is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 October 2023, the town had a population of 10,965, [1] [2] and total area of 92.82 km 2 (35.84 sq mi).
Ekiden (駅伝) is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads. [1]: 812 [2]The original Japanese term had nothing to do with a sport or a competition, but it simply referred to the age old post-horse or stagecoach courier system which transmitted communication by stages, instead of one horse or a man covering the entire long distance.
In the men's All-Japan Interprefectural Ekiden Championship, 7 runners run 48 kilometers in stages of 7k 3k 8.5k 5k 8.5k 3k and 13k. [10] In both races, each team is composed of runners selected to represent one prefecture, a total of 47 teams in each race. The majority of the team members are high school and junior high school elite runners.
The ekiden is organised by the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF), the national governing body for the sport. It has three major sponsors: the Kyoto Shimbun (the regional newspaper), Murata Machinery , and NHK (the national broadcaster).