On the morning of Feb 27, five days before the 2024 Tokyo Marathon, the sportswear supremo and race sponsor, Asics, was forced to issue a formal apology over something it might have embraced.
An illustrated map of the marathon course, printed on thousands of Tokyo Marathon T-shirts, showed the showcase event ending at a “funish” line in front of the Imperial Palace.
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