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SUMO SCRIBBLINGS

SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 28, 2007
Hakuho notches another as the ozeki raise eyebrows
This year's Kyushu Basho, which ended Sunday, saw Hakuho stride through the muck and grime to claim the fifth title of his career with a 12-win, 3-loss record. When push came to shove, his class shined through. Hakuho, who is looking more and more like the second coming of the great yokozuna Futabayama, kept it simple, did his thing and quietly dominated the majority of his bouts. He was able to step up a gear when need be, and wasn't one to lose his concentration too often. "Hak" probably knows the weaknesses he must address in the coming year if Asashoryu comes back at full force. For now, his flaws can be put down to relative youth and over-enthusiasm, when he should be trying to be more patient
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 6, 2007
Game over for Kaio and Chiyotaikai?
As the Kyushu Basho, running Nov. 11-25, rumbles around once again, so does the regular talk of ozeki retirement.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Oct 18, 2007
Who killed Takashi Saito?
That any life should be lost during sport is tragic, and sumo is no exception.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 25, 2007
Hakuho, and other foreign-born wrestlers, dominate the Autumn Basho
Of the 700 men active in professional sumo less than 10 percent are foreign-born. Of the six divisions in which they compete, only one went the way of a Japanese rikishi at this year's Autumn Basho. The remaining five divisions were dominated by men from afar.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 4, 2007
The king is all but dead — long live sumo!
Following his flight home, the Mongolian police and military were deployed to prevent Japanese media access to "their" man, Asashoryu, and not since the time Konishiki was looking at promotion to yokozuna has the line separating Japanese and non-Japanese suitability to hold the rank been drawn so prominently in the sand.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Aug 14, 2007
Close the door on the way out Asashoryu
Every sport has its ups and downs. Every sport has its bad boys. Sumo, in as far as it is classified as a sport, is no different.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jul 24, 2007
Normal service resumed at the Nagoya Basho
Hakuko, Sumo's 69th yokozuna, overcame his first-ever official yokozuna bout with a convincing yorikiri win against fellow Mongolian Tokitenku of Tokitsukaze Beya. Following that impressive start, however, he flipped on the auto-pilot switch and glided out week one. Stumbling several times in the second week, with losses to Kotomitsuki and the ozeki pair of Kotooshu and Chiyotaikai, he slipped out of title contention before a senshuraku loss to senior yokozuna Asashoryu. He ended his first basho at rank 11-4. Be warned, though, as this is a man only getting better, a man still raw and relatively unpolished, the best has yet to come.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jul 3, 2007
Anticipation tarnished by tragedy before Nagoya basho
At a time when sumo fans were excitedly anticipating the first tournament since late 2003 that boasts two yokozuna, tragedy struck: In late June, a 17-year-old rikishi died after a training session.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jun 12, 2007
Sumo at the Olympics or a dohyo too far?
Sumo in Japan is on the up and up. We now have two yokozuna with a good half decade of rivalry in the tanks, one young enough to still be around in 10 years time. Irrespective of reports in the Japanese-language media, the sport is not sinking into the abyss with the continued success of its foreign legion. The 60 or so non-Japanese that make up less than 10 percent of more than 700 active professionals merely add to the color and flavor of a sport that is ever expanding and gaining new fans worldwide, from Norway to New Zealand, from the Americas to Australia.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Mar 6, 2007
Who to watch at the upcoming Haru Basho
Who is going to take a fall in the Haru Basho?
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Feb 14, 2007
How to weed out a wrestling wizard
Centuries ago, the Europeans and, in some cases, Americans liked nothing better than a spot of witch-hunting on a quiet news day.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Dec 19, 2006
Dear Santa, one new nose, a couple of knees and a lower back, please
In the next couple of weeks, expect the media to start talking of yokozuna Asashoryu and his latest bout with the sniffles, being bunged up or perhaps having fallen victim to a mystery allergy -- again!
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Nov 28, 2006
For the sake of sumo, scrap the Fukuoka Basho
In the Fukuoka Basho's biggest surprise in years, the ozeki, despite their largely poor standards of late, didn't perform too badly. The aging trio of Kaio, Chiyotaikai and Tochiazuma were all well within range of Asashoryu as far in as the mid-way point.
Japan Times
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Apr 12, 2006
Promotions, trips and an NHK departure
With memories of the Osaka Haru Basho starting to fade, a lot of sumo fans will be looking to May 7th and the first day of the Natsu Basho in Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
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.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
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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