Former yokozuna Onokuni now acts as JSA's public face
Shibatayama stablemaster is one of the more visible members of the Japan Sumo Association's board of directors. As head of the public relations department, he is the one who announces many major decisions to the press and, along with Chairman Hakkaku, is the person most ...
Ban on social media wrong call for sumo's popularity, transparency
Japan's national sport is semiglobalized. For the first 1,957 years of its history, sumo was practiced exclusively by people born and raised in this country. From 23 B.C. to 1964, every single rikishi was ethnically Japanese. It's been an entirely different situation for the past few decades ...
JSA needs to look outward for good of sumo
Whatever hopes fans had for a peaceful end to the year were dashed when Japan Sumo Association officials instructed Takagenji to take part in his regularly scheduled bout on Dec. 11 despite the wrestler being diagnosed with influenza earlier in the day. Ten years after ...
