The most water moved by the hands in 30 seconds was 1,259 ml achieved by Darius Gudinskas (Canada) at Park Challenge / GWR Live! in Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo, Japan, on 2 May 2010. The attempt was part of a Guinness World Records live event at Tokyo Midtown.
The most all-around artistic gymnastics world championships won by a male gymnast is three, and were achieved by Kôhei Uchimura (Japan) in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. 5 other gymnasts have won 2 World Championships. Uchimura won his 3rd title during the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastic Championships held in Tokyo in October 2011.
The most yo-yo eli hops completed in 30 seconds is 71 and was achieved by Hiroyuki Suzuki (Japan) on the set of Shiawase no Kiiroi Koinu in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, on 19 December 2009. Hiroyuki broke his own record. A ‘Eli Hop’ is performed by landing a trapeze and tossing the yo-yo upward and letting the hands come together and touch and then separate them and catch the yo-yo again in a trapeze with the hands touching after each hop.
As the name suggests, an octopus usually has eight tentacles, but occasional freak specimens with fewer or more than eight have been documented. The octopus with the greatest known number of tentacles is an extraordinary specimen of common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) that was captured alive in Matoya Bay, Japan, during December 1998. Each of its eight normal tentacles had branched to produce a profusion of additional ones, yielding an amazing 96 tentacles in total. It survived for five months in captivity, and after its death
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The oldest hotel is the Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan, a hot-spring hotel, which has been operating since 705 AD. The second oldest hotel is also in Japan.
The oldest couple to run a marathon were Shigetsugu Anan (Japan) aged 83 yr 11 days and his wife Miyoko Anan (Japan) 78 yr 71 days at the Ibusuki Nanohana Marathon, Japan, on 13 January 2008. They ran as a couple side by side finishing together in 7 hr 36 min 22 sec.
The oldest man to climb Mt Everest is Yuichiro Miura (Japan, b. 12 October 1932), who reached the summit on 23 May 2013 at the age of 80 years 223 days. This is the third time that he has held this record: he previously reached the highest point on Earth as the world’s oldest summiteer in 2003 and again at 2008. He was helicoptered off the mountain from Base 2
Minoru Saito (Japan) was 71 when he completed a non-stop solo circumnavigation of the world in his 15 m (50 ft) yacht Shuten-doji II on 6 June 2005, becoming the oldest person to sail around the world. His 233-day journey, which started and finished near the Japanese port of Misaki,covered around 50,000 km (27,000 nautical miles).
The largest origami paper crane has a wingspan of 81.94 m (268 ft 9 in) and was created by 800 people of the Peace Piece Project (all Japan) at the Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima, Japan, on 29 August 2009. The claimants first created a piece of paper measuring 100 m x 100 m (328 ft x 328 ft) out of smaller paper pieces. These pieces were attached to one another with tape. The wingspan was measured by a surveyor using triangulation.
Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail network opened for business on 1 October 1964. Since then the system has carried nearly 7 billion passengers without a single fatality due to collision. The only derailment occurred on 23 October 2004 during the Chuetsu Earthquake, but despite eight out of ten cars leaving the track there were no casualties.