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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
With the Spring Basho less than two weeks away now, sumo fans might be forgiven for thinking something is amiss given the lack of any real news coming out of Osaka. The vast majority of rikishi have been in their temporary lodgings for about ...
Sumo is a physical sport to many, but it is very much a spiritual rite to others. The bouts commence and end with a bow, in much the same way as judo or kendo bouts start with a similar acknowledgment of the opponent. Mutual ...
While the so-called Asashoryu era of complete dominance is a thing of the past, the Hatsu Basho saw the 28-year-old prove there is life in the not-so-old dog yet. In beating fellow yokozuna Hakuho, a man five years his junior, Asashoryu surprised many and ...
Training is already well underway for the 2009 Hatsu Basho with one man leading the pack in terms of exertion put in, and column inches covering that effort. That man is Asashoryu. Although there have been calls in the last two years for him ...
For many sumo fans looking back at 2008, it will be a year of scandal with yaocho (match-fixing) allegations involving Yokozuna Asashoryu, and also the unfinished case surrounding the death of a young rikishi in mid-2007, still making their way through the infamously slow ...
Following an outstanding performance at the recent Kyushu Basho, the sport of sumo has a new prince named Ama. Early this week he will receive an official visit from representatives of the Nihon Sumo Kyokai notifying him of his promotion to the rank of ...
Intentional or not, Asashoryu has done it again. In the run-up to the Kyushu Basho, he has stolen the spotlight. It all recalls his behaviour of a year ago, when he had what many saw as a mental breakdown following suspension from two basho ...
In recent weeks, sumo has been taking hits left, right and center. Most relate to allegations of bout fixing, known as yaocho, that appeared in early 2007 in the tabloid Shukan Gendai, which made claims that, among others, current yokozuna Asashoryu benefited from such ...
The Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament started under a cloud, with three Russian wrestlers freshly kicked out of the sport for drug use, but by the final bouts on Sunday sumo was enjoying clearer skies. With Musashigawa — former yokozuna Mienoumi — at the helm ...
In the days leading up to the Aki Basho, sumo is on the ropes. For two weeks, following the drug-related dismissal of Magaki Beya wrestler Wakanoho of Russia, the sport has been struggling to keep its head above water and dark clouds have been ...
While summer is a time of rest and relaxation for many, the men at the top rungs of the sumo ladder enjoy no such benefits — or at least it would appear. Since getting a few days of R&R following the Nagoya Basho that ...
When yokozuna Asashoryu withdrew from the July 13-27 Nagoya Basho on Day 6, public opinion was largely split. Official announcements had an injured elbow listed as the reason the Mongolian yokozuna decided to call it quits in week one, although he didn’t appear to ...