The top Italian envoy to Tokyo is calling for Japanese cyclists to join a mountain race his homeland hosts in August as a biennial event aiming to boost relations between the two countries."We, as the embassy, will support the event that enables participants to discover good points of Japan and Italy," Ambassador Giorgio Starace told an event in Tokyo, referring to the Aug. 27 Italian round of the Mt. Fuji-Zoncolan Carnia Classic race, a project co-hosted by Shizuoka Prefecture and Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.The prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, and the northeastern Italian region have take…READ FULL ARTICLE
