early on at ichinomiya. the finals have been moved forward. this is the pacific coast ofjapan, about an hour and a half drive east of tokyo. this place is called ichinomiya, and it s really popular with the local surfers. you can see today the waves are pretty lively. that s because we ve got a typhoon living in. when you think of surfing, probably think of the north shore of hawaii or the gold coast of australia or maybe bali, notjapan. but actually surfing is really, really popular here injapan. it s estimated around 2 millionjapanese regularly get on a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo before 4am this morning in order to be in the water before 6am. the waves here are best early in the morning, before it gets too windy. this beach isjust 2km from where the olympic surfing competition is being held. so how do they feel about not being able to go along and watch?
heroism. we got it, we got it. a remarkable story. let s turn to tokyo and talk about the new, surfing. the sport made its debut on sunday, with the action beginning early in ichinomiya. but due to an approaching tropical storm, the finals have been moved forward to today instead of wednesday. this is the pacific coast ofjapan, about an hour and a half drive east of tokyo. this place is called ichinomiya, and it s really popular with the local surfers. you can see today the waves are pretty lively. that s because we ve got a typhoon living in. when you think of surfing, probably think of the north shore of hawaii or the gold coast of australia or maybe bali, not japan. but actually surfing is really, really popular here injapan. it s estimated around two millionjapanese regularly get on a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo before 4am this morning in order to be in the water before 6am. the waves here are best early in the morning, before it gets too windy. this
chosen not to identify the minister and so, that is her prerogative. and finally the surfing finals have been moved to today because of the weather injapan. rupert wigfield hayes has more on from tokyo. this is the pacific coast ofjapan, about an hour and a half drive east of tokyo. this place is called ichinomiya, and it s really popular with the local surfers. you can see today the waves are pretty lively. that s because we ve got a typhoon living in. when you think of surfing coming probably think of the north shore of hawaii or the gold coast of australia or maybe bali, notjapan. but actually surfing is really, really popular here injapan. it s estimated around 2 millionjapanese regularly get on a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo before 4am this morning in order to be in the water before six a:m. the waves here are best early in the morning, before it gets too windy.
but due to an approaching tropical storm, the finals have been moved forward to today instead of wednesday. here is our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes in japan. this is the pacific coast of japan, about an hour and a half drive east of tokyo. this place is called ichinomiya, and it s really popular with the local surfers. you can see today the waves are pretty lively. that s because we ve got a typhoon living in. when you think of surfing coming probably think of the north shore of hawaii or the gold coast of australia or maybe bali, notjapan. but actually surfing is really, really popular here injapan. it s estimated around 2 millionjapanese regularly get on a surfboard. this group of young surfers left home in tokyo before 4am this morning in order to be in the water before six a:m. the waves here are best early in the morning, before it gets too windy. this beach isjust two km