Hakuho/Miyagino promotes Hakuho-rice

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Hakuho promoting Hakuho-rice in Hokkaido with prefecture governor Takahashi.
On the 3rd he will plant rice in Takikawa. From Nikkan Sports

Edited October 9, 2022 by Akinomaki

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Hakuho is on tour in Hokkaido to help restore the former Sumo stronghold.

Planting the rice. He is tourism embassador for Takikawa, where the "Hakuho" brand rice is grown.

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The rice will go to Mongolia and the sumo school in the Kokugikan.

Presenting the governor with "Hakuho" kimono cloth

He wants also help in teaching to Mongolians the cultivation of rice.

Next "Hakuho" sushi is planned.

From Sponichi

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He wants also help in teaching to Mongolians the cultivation of rice.

Rice in Mongolia? That's totally utter bullshit PR drool ambitious.

[ronnie 221]

He wants also help in teaching to Mongolians the cultivation of rice.

Rice in Mongolia? That's totally utter bullshit PR drool ambitious.

I'm sure they'll manage it steppe by steppe!

[Asashosakari 20,288]

It's becoming an annual thing.

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He wants also help in teaching to Mongolians the cultivation of rice.

Rice in Mongolia? That's totally utter bullshit PR drool ambitious.

I'm sure they'll manage it steppe by steppe!

Hey, if they can put a man on the moon....

[kuroimori 1,634]

He wants also help in teaching to Mongolians the cultivation of rice.

Rice in Mongolia? That's totally utter bullshit PR drool ambitious.

I'm sure they'll manage it steppe by steppe!

Hey, if they can put a man on the moon....

The Moongolians...?

[yorikiried by fate 2,038]

He wants also help in teaching to Mongolians the cultivation of rice.

Rice in Mongolia? That's totally utter bullshit PR drool ambitious.

I'm sure they'll manage it steppe by steppe!

Hey, if they can put a man on the moon....

The Moongolians...?

After being taught by Hakuho: No problemo.

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Officer Crop-key:

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Hakuho found a new (yokozuna) hope for his heya from Hokkaido, Tanigawa (14, 181cm, 128kg).

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More rice planting. This year the harvest is expected to be 100 tons, last year it was 60 tons.

So far it was sold in Takikawa, per mail order in selected department stores in Tokyo, but it is planned to expand this to the whole of Hokkaido, stores in big cities and stores for regional specialities. A part will also be donated to the (last years) disaster stricken town of Miyako in Iwate.

Hakuho: It looks like getting more tasty than last year.

And: With all that activities managed, I want to get the Emperors Cup back.

from Sports Hochi

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The Hakuho-rice in Mongolia is growing fine. "So far there are the same conditions as in Japan. From now on in Mongolia it will become colder so I don't know, but I look forward to autumn".

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Don't hurt your back planting that rice, Hakuho!

Also, Hokkaido being a sumo stronghold was mentioned. Do a lot of rikishi/successful rikishi historically come from Hokkaido? I haven't really noticed that with current wrestlers.

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8 of the Yokozuna were born in Hokkaido: Chiyonoyama, Yoshibayama, Taiho, Kitanofuji, Kitanoumi, Chiyonofuji, Hokutoumi, Onokuni

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8 of the Yokozuna were born in Hokkaido: Chiyonoyama, Yoshibayama, Taiho, Kitanofuji, Kitanoumi, Chiyonofuji, Hokutoumi, Onokuni

Sakhalin

Karafuto in Japanese.

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8 of the Yokozuna were born in Hokkaido: Chiyonoyama, Yoshibayama, Taiho, Kitanofuji, Kitanoumi, Chiyonofuji, Hokutoumi, Onokuni

Sakhalin

Sorry, I know that. I meant shusshin.

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Hakuho rice will soon be served at a hotel restaurant in Tokyo. Hakuho was at a meeting in Sapporo, harvest festival of Takikawa, being a sightseeing ambassador there.

"Being told that it is exceptionally tasty makes me totally happy". About the plants in Mongolia: "From a plastic greenhouse, this year we also did harvest rice."

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Hakuho with kids at a primary school in Takikawa eating Hakuho rice harvested end of Sept.

An application to be registered as trademark has been made.

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Someone should have told him to sip and not to squeeze.

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Not only the rice. Hakuho in the town of Fukawa, planting a seaberry tree. He wants to help making this Mongolian fruit popular. Ways of mass production are to be studied at the local Takushoku university.

Edited October 18, 2012 by Akinomaki

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Hakuho also is named honorary coach of the womens basket ball team of the same university, Takudai.

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Hakuho himself was in a basket-ball club till middle school, the team finishing 3rd in a Mongolian national event. At the Takudai he has his yokozuna number 69.

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On the 14th Hakuho presented 120 kg of Hakuho rice to the sumo trainees, the new recruits from last basho.
Last years harvest was about 1800 kg, a different calculation maybe from the 100 tons planned after 60 tons the year before.
The rest may be the same rice, but only from the fields Hakuho helped to cultivate it seems to be named "Hakuho rice".

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with sumo trainees and Kabutoyama-oyakata

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video from the Hakuho rice presentation

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Hakuho is in Mongolia to plant there Hakuho rice, fulfilling his long time his dream, starting 3 years ago with creating a variety of rice in Hokkaido that can grow in Mongolia.
He also plans to gives advice to a youngster's baseball team there.

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8 of the Yokozuna were born in Hokkaido: Chiyonoyama, Yoshibayama, Taiho, Kitanofuji, Kitanoumi, Chiyonofuji, Hokutoumi, Onokuni

During the late seventies and eighties virtually all the top rankers were either from Aomori or Hokkaido - including yokozuna Takanosato, Wakanohana II (Aomori), ozeki Hokutenyu (Hokkaido).

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