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SUMO SCRIBBLINGS

SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Apr 3, 2013
Hakuho sets records, Harumafuji only raises questions
As was expected before the recent Haru Basho in Osaka, both yokozuna, on the back of too little practice, and too many public engagements started the tournament less than convincingly.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Mar 10, 2013
Will this be the basho in which Kisenosato claims his first yusho?
When the basho opens today, few rikishi will be as ill-prepared as the two yokozuna: Hakuho and Harumafuji.
SUMO
Mar 1, 2013
Wrestling's fall from Olympic grace sends wake-up call to International Sumo Federation
The quest of the International Sumo Federation (IFS) to have amateur sumo accepted as a bona fide Olympic sport has long been viewed as as a pie-in-the-sky proposition by many.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jan 28, 2013
Harumafuji bounces back but cracks are still there
Harumafuji made many a sports-page headline Monday morning thanks to his latest 15-0 championship, his third zensho-yusho to date, and in claiming his fifth Emperor's Cup; his first as a yokozuna.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jan 8, 2013
Seven sumo stories to look out for in the year of the snake
1. Baruto — make or break
Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 28, 2012
Kyushu Basho: Harumafuji less than impressive as Baruto demoted
In the days leading up to the Nov. 11-25 Kyushu Basho in Fukuoka, much of the talk in sumo circles centered on the ozeki trio of Baruto, Kotoshogiku and the forever injured Kotooshu being able to maintain their rank come the January tournament back in Tokyo.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 9, 2012
Kyushu 2012 — once more, two yokozuna heading the rankings
For the first time since 2009, the Kyushu Basho, Nov. 11-25, will see two yokozuna featured on the ranking sheet. Hakuho is in the slightly more prestigious east slot, with Harumafuji over on the west side of the banzuke.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Oct 26, 2012
Sumo World Championships a shadow of former self
Thousands of kids in Japan attend amateur sumo clubs every weekend. Many adults join them as part of fitness regimes.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 25, 2012
Harumafuji — sumo's 70th yokozuna
The 2012 Aki Basho will forever be remembered as the tournament at which ozeki Harumafuji, winner of the previous Nagoya Basho with a perfect 15-0 record, mirrored his performance in July and guaranteed his promotion to the rank of yokozuna.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 9, 2012
Aki Basho 2012: Time for ozeki Harumafuji to step up his game
When the Aki-basho starts today, all eyes will be on one man, and this time it is not yokozuna grand champion Hakuho. Rather the focus of sumo fans throughout Japan and around the world will be on ozeki Harumafuji. Looking to secure a second consecutive championship victory and thereby guarantee his own promotion to the top rank, the 28-year-old Mongolian has been here before — twice — and failed both times.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jun 30, 2012
Amateur sumo in crisis: Europe and Japan go head to head
For the past 20 years amateur sumo has been bidding for full and formal IOC recognition. Making its way through the IOC's various levels of acceptance, it was, according to many, doing rather well.
Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
May 3, 2012
Sumo's dohyo starting to level out
If Hakuho wins the upcoming Grand Sumo Tournament (May 6-20) it will be the 50th time a Mongolian has won the Emperor's Cup.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Mar 31, 2012
Sumo returns to Osaka with a bang
For the first time since March of 2010, the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium played host to a sumo tournament.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Mar 10, 2012
One large step back, a few small steps forward
Last month the sumo association, while supposedly seeing 2012 as the year to move forward and clear their sullied name, took a massive step backward.
Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jan 24, 2012
2012 kicks off with a bang for Baruto
Before the New Year's Grand Sumo Tournament, most fans would have predicted that Hakuho, the reigning yokozuna, would claim his third successive Emperor's Cup, and 22nd title overall.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jan 6, 2012
Hatsu Basho 2011 — time for domestic rekishi to shine
For around a decade much has been made of the lack of domestic born talent in professional sumo. No Japanese sekitori has won a yusho now for six full years — the last local winner being then ozeki Tochiazuma back in January of 2006.
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.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 30, 2011
Kisenosato promoted to ozeki, Hakuho on 21
When the Kyushu Basho down in Fukuoka drew to a close on Nov. 27, much of the conversation was centered on sekiwake Kisenosato and whether or not he deserved his all-but-publicly announced imminent promotion to the rank of ozeki.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 10, 2011
The next big thing, and one that never quite made it
Leading up to the 2011 Kyushu tourney down in Fukuoka, the world of sumo is looking to round off another annus horribilis.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 29, 2011
Aki goes pear shaped for Harumafuji as Hakuho notches No. 20
On Day 1, popular ozeki Harumafuji downed komusubi Toyonoshima in a match that had the audience at the Kokugikan clapping wildly and looking forward to a tournament in which the smallest man in the second rank would make a run for yokozuna grand champion status, following his championship win back in Nagoya in July. Toyonoshima, for his part, was on course for an awful first week, after the midway point posting a miserable 1-7 score before bouncing back to win the final seven days and walk away with an 8-7 winning record — the second time he has done so in Tokyo this year.
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The National Diet building in Tokyo
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From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
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