THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 16, 2019 at 18:45 JST
Nobue Saito, left, was one of the runners in the 1964 Olympic torch relay. She and others transported the torch by a ferry along the Uko ferry route from Takamatsu Port in Kagawa Prefecture and passed it onto a group waiting at Uno Station on the Okayama Prefecture side. Takami Tonoyama, right, Saito’s classmate, also ran the land route of the torch relay in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture. (Miyuki Kanno)
A historic ferry route that connected Shikoku and the Honshu main island for more than a century ended on Dec. 15, as many people waited in line at both ports to buy a ticket for the final voyage. [Read More]
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