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Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Dec 27, 2011

Tis the season to be focused

Unlike many sports, the sumo calendar can be predicted months, even years in advance.
Reader Mail
Feb 17, 2011

Requirements for sumo's survival

Regarding Tom Quinn's Feb. 13 letter, "Match-rigging scandal overblown": Japanese sumo needs to wake up if it wants to survive. Salaries are tiny compared to pro baseball or J League soccer. Also, any professional sport will fail if its main matches are played between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.; a 7 to 9 p.m....
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2010

Sumo hopes to keep stablemasters in touch with iPads

High school girls may make rapidly tapping out messages on a cell phone look like child's play, but for sumo wrestlers — with fingers too large to hit a single key at a time — grappling with standard handsets is a gargantuan task.
Reader Mail
Jul 11, 2010

Why are sumo fans punished?

Regarding the July 7 article "Nagoya Basho 2010 — a tournament that will live in infamy": It is unfair to overseas fans of sumo for NHK not to televise the Nagoya Basho (except to recap daily highlights). I am an older lady who takes much pleasure in watching each basho on television. It is appropriate...
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2010

Sumo punishment meted out

The Japan Sumo Association in an extraordinary executive meeting on Sunday decided to punish wrestlers and stablemasters involved in illegal gambling on professional baseball games. It fired the two central figures in the gambling scandal — ozeki Kotomituski and stablemaster Otake. Kotomituski will...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 16, 2010

What should sumo's disgraced yokozuna Asashoryu do next?

Reader Mail
Jul 2, 2009

Luring homegrown sumo talent

Regarding the June 24 article "Sumo world's foreigners on rise, roll with punches": Tell me how shoving sand into a wrestler's mouth builds character, strength and stamina. And for a change of pace, we are expected to believe that pushing salt past the lips builds more virtuous qualities.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Mar 8, 2008

Who can steal the limelight from the Mongolian princes of sumo?

A little over a week ago, the Nihon Sumo Kyokai announced its rankings for the upcoming Haru Basho in Osaka.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2007

Wrestler's death leads sumo to probe training

may face criminal charges of manslaughter.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.

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