January 16th 2000. "The 5th Japan dog sled race" Aomori city, Aomori prefecture. "Japan dog sled race" was held in skiing ground "Moya-Hills", which is in Mt. Rokkouda.The dogs and the mushers, came from all over Japan (actually most of them are from Touhoku), compete their time to show their skills, which are from everyday practic. It started from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., but as there were so many participators, it was hard to finish them all on time. "Alaskan Husky" is the best dog for dog sled, but there are participators who uses other types of dog, so in this meeting they separate the race into to two types. One is for "Alaskan Husky", and the "other". The first half of the route is from the skiing ground, and it is a flat track. The last half of the route is on the camping area, and as they pass though there will be an up down track. Normally, this dog sleds race is done by two dogs pulling the sleds, and they compete their times in 3 to 4 minutes.

	The dogs get encouraged by the voice of the mashers and the dog's owner that is on a snowmobile running in front of them, and pull their sleds as fast as they can.		The dogs get so excited before the race! Men try to stop the dog, which is trying to start. Sometime the dogs, pulling the same sled starts a fight, as they are so excited.
	People who practice dog sled seriously customs inside of their camping car to a dog house to take along many dogs, and they participate on many meetings.		There were many spectators who took along their dogs. Most of them were middle size or large size dogs, but there was a cute spectator like this. Maybe someday, this dog will pull a sled...