Gaijingai

https://www.cinemaexpress.com/tamil/news/2025/Apr/04/mirchi-shiva-starrer-sumo-gets-a-new-release-date

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/20250403-246776/

Really interesting article. Good to see sumo growing in the USA. https://www.dvidshub.net/news/493587/afimsc-member-goes-spectator-sumo-world-championship-less-than-year

I’m in!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/amazing-race-s-bridget-and-ernest-got-caught-up-trying-to-pass-teams/ar-AA1ATEqW

https://en.sggp.org.vn/sumo-martial-art-set-for-development-in-ho-chi-minh-city-post116241.html

https://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53271/18?backlist=%2F

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/wrestling-religion-and-rule-breaking-collide-in-sumo/ar-AA1Al0Up

https://japan-forward.com/newly-promoted-yokozuna-hoshoryu-aiming-to-kick-off-new-era-in-style-at-spring-basho/

I have a story a little different, about a sumo wrestler, rather than a heya. It was back in 2001 that I visted Tokisukaze-Beya and noticed a skinny, hard-working wrestler. At the time, the folks on the old sumo listserve were adopting wrestlers, so I adopted him. Through someone else on the listserve, I was introduced to a woman who was a big sumo fan. She had the official yearly sumo book and sent me the pictures of all the heya wrestlers. I picked out his picture and she told me his name was Okinoumi, a guy way down in the lower divisions. She also gave me the heya address. After each basho, I would send Okinoumi a postcard in Romanji...hoping he could read it..., yet never heard back from him. A couple years later I was in Tokyo for a business meeting with Paramount Pictures and contacted Doreen Simmons. She graciously agreed to take me to Tokitsukaze-Beya for morning keiko and introduce me to Okinoumi. I got to watch him practice and afterwards Doreen and I went around out back, where he was doing some clean-up work. She introduced me to him and was my interpreter as he told me that my postcards were an inspiration to him. It was a thrill to meet him personanly and talk with him, even briefly. Doreen even took our photo together!

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250303/p2a/00m/0na/004000c

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/23/florida-man-games-date-tickets-trailer/79444953007/# Hoo boy!

This is today. https://www.kpbs.org/events/2025/02/22/3rd-annual-socal-sumo-open

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/20250219-239500/

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250212/p2g/00m/0sp/043000c

https://www.coliseum-online.com/paris-sumo-showpiece-promises-ring-rhapsody/

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/sports/20250208/sumo-returns-to-paris-and-turns-heads/84391.html

https://wrestlingheadlines.com/former-sumo-wrestling-champion-invited-to-wwe-royal-rumble-receives-wwe-nil-offer-releases-statement/

I May be as busy as ever flying around Southeast Asia during the March Basho, but I can certainly easily say put me in for the draw This is one game where I don’t have to do a darn thing.

Hoshorshu Must Prove He’s a Worthy Yokozuna https://japan-forward.com/hoshoryu-must-prove-hes-a-worthy-yokozuna/

News article about the tsuna-making. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250130/p2g/00m/0sp/049000c

https://playbill.com/article/photos-step-into-the-rehearsal-ring-for-sumo-off-broadway

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/worlds-heaviest-sumo-wrestler-vs-fitness-influencers-who-s-stronger/vi-AA1xThVk 9-minute video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zx3guH1Aj4 Narrated by Murray Johnson