The Art of Running | Joseph Tame in Tokyo

Nazca Lines Found in Tokyo?

Dec 30, 2016 | Featured, Latest Posts, The Art of Running

The 2016 Tokyo Marathon (my 8th Tokyo Marathon, and 7th full Marathon) was the first for which I actually managed to train properly. When I say train properly, I mean spend about 4 months running several times a week, gradually building up to marathon distance. Why? I...

Running Art: Collaboration with Yomiuri TV’s ‘Garigeru’

Jan 6, 2016 | Featured, The Art of Running, TV

Running Art: Collaboration with Yomiuri TV’s ‘Garigeru’ A little while back, Yomiuri TV, part of the Nippon TV network based in Osaka, approached me with an idea to turn Running Art into a running game, to be played on the streets of Osaka. The...

The Art of Running: Collaboration with Kyodo News & Local Schoolchildren

Dec 20, 2015 | Featured, The Art of Running

A couple of months back I was contacted by a writer at Kyodo News. She’d read about my running art project and thought it would be a good fit for a regular column that she writes, introducing interesting uses of smartphones for elementary and junior high school...

TV: Collaboration with NTV for Running Art Series

Dec 17, 2015 | Featured, The Art of Running, TV

Earlier this year we joined forces with Nippon TV and Hiroshima TV, to make a three-part series focused on Running Art – “Chikyu Mapping” (literally ‘Globe Mapping’). For the first episode, we headed on down to Hiroshima, where me met up with...

The Art of Running: Collaboration with J-Wave Radio for a Special 100km Birthday Run

Oct 7, 2015 | Featured, Press, The Art of Running

August 13th is a very special day for Japan’s no. 1 radio station, J-Wave, and this year I helped them celebrate it in style

TV: Tokyo Kurasso! Joseph Tame on MXTV

Jul 21, 2015 | Featured, The Art of Running, TV

Earlier this year I was invited to appear on Tokyo MXTV’s Tokyo Kurasso! (‘Let’s live in Tokyo’), to talk about my Running Art, and the Tokyo Marathon project. This was the first time to appear without my wind-turbine-hat-of-power, but despite that it all went well.

The Art of Running: Collaboration with J-Wave 81.3fm celebrating J-me’s birthday

Jul 9, 2015 | Events, Featured, The Art of Running

Looking forward to a new 105km Running Art piece – but this one I won’t be running on my own, I’ll be creating the picture with a team of about 40 runners consisting of J-Wave Radio DJs and listeners.

The Art of Running: 140km Olaf

Jul 3, 2015 | Featured, The Art of Running

As temperatures rise in Tokyo, what better way to keep cool than by running a 140km picture of Olaf on the streets of Tokyo?!

NHK World: Featured Tokyo Artist

Jan 10, 2015 | Featured, The Art of Running, TV

Back in September 2014 I was contacted by NHK World regarding a couple of programs that they were planning focused on Tokyo-based foreign artists. Broadcast worldwide on Satellite TV, online, via their mobile apps, the program, Tokyo Eye, introduces various aspects of...