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crossed the Tsugaru Strait forced Chieko
May 1993, Japan's 43-year-old female piano teacher forced Chieko single swim across located between Japan's Hokkaido and Honshu 35 km wide Tsugaru Strait, the first woman to become a single person to swim across the Tsugaru Strait. Large forced Chieko water from Aomori Prefecture, Honshu northernmost territory, she had to bend the route in order to bypass the rapids, swam at 1:00. Since water is too cold, Chieko midway to produce longer swim down the idea. Encouragement of the boat with her swimming coach, Chieko adhere down, and finally the day 13:40 swim to the other side of Hokkaido Fukushima, which lasted 12 hours and 40 minutes, the actual run of about 50 km.