Foreign rikishi totals since WWII by country

[Asashosakari 18,784]

These numbers are from a recent Sports Hochi article on Osunaarashi and are presumably official Kyokai counts, so I'm mostly posting to preserve them for possible future use (whatever that may be). No discussion intended on my part, but if you feel like having one, go right ahead. :-)

53 Mongolia

30 USA

16 Brazil

12 China, Korea, Taiwan

8 Tonga

6 Russia

4 Georgia, Philippines

2 Argentina, Bulgaria, Estonia, United Kingdom, Western Samoa

1 Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Sri Lanka

174 rikishi from 22 countries in total.

[torquato 1,075]

Thanks for sharing this information. But, why are you not linking to the original source? It's this article, isnt't it? http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/news/20130518-OHT1T00227.htm

Interesting overview, I think. More foreign rikishi and from more countries than I expected. I guess most of the US boys come from Hawaii..?

[Asashosakari 18,784]

But, why are you not linking to the original source?

Why are you asking?

[torquato 1,075]

mmmh... maybe academic attitude... maybe I'm interested in Osunaarashi and would have found it interesting to read more about him... maybe because i would like to improve my broken Japanese and find it interesting to try to read articles which interest me. I just think a link would have been fair and easier to follow up.

But I'm not doubting your expetise or reliability in any way.

And anyway sorry, if I sounded rude or unpolite... I'm just new to this forum.

Chears


PS: English is not my native tongue.

Edit: well.... cheers QED

Edited May 20, 2013 by torquato

[Orion 431]

These numbers are from a recent Sports Hochi article on Osunaarashi and are presumably official Kyokai counts, so I'm mostly posting to preserve them for possible future use (whatever that may be). No discussion intended on my part, but if you feel like having one, go right ahead. :-)

53 Mongolia

30 USA

16 Brazil

12 China, Korea, Taiwan

8 Tonga

6 Russia

4 Georgia, Philippines

2 Argentina, Bulgaria, Estonia, United Kingdom, Western Samoa

1 Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Sri Lanka

174 rikishi from 22 countries in total.

"United Kingdom" is a little misleading: one Londoner and one Hong Kong Chinese before the reversion to China.

FWIW, Orion

[Asashosakari 18,784]

mmmh... maybe academic attitude... maybe I'm interested in Osunaarashi and would have found it interesting to read more about him... maybe because i would like to improve my broken Japanese and find it interesting to try to read articles which interest me. I just think a link would have been fair and easier to follow up.

Ah, okay. Different focus than what made me post the thread, I was really just trying to post the list somewhere before it goes away.

Since I've thought about the issue now anyway: I sympathize with the "academic attitude" angle, but nevertheless this forum has mostly developed a no-linked-sources style for Japanese articles. The main reasons:

1) Many news updates appear with virtually identical wording in half a dozen online papers, so there's little point in linking to a specific one. I do try to mention the source (as I did in this thread) if it's something exclusive to one paper, and usually include a link if it's either something potentially controversial (news that's unexpected or hard to believe or reported differently across multiple papers), or if I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. Other "high-volume" posters of news may do it differently, that's just my overall approach.

2) The great majority of the forum members don't read Japanese so for them a link adds little at best, and gets in the way at worst. The members who are actually inclined to check out the original articles usually know how to find them as long as the source is given at all (just like you did).

3) Some of the online papers expire their "regular" articles very quickly, for Sports Hochi it's 14 days, so it doesn't take very long for a posted link to become useless.

[Andonishiki 168]

imagine, there`s no countries.... (Jon Lemon) (Laughing...)

Edited May 20, 2013 by Andonishiki

[kuroimori 1,634]

These numbers are from a recent Sports Hochi article on Osunaarashi and are presumably official Kyokai counts, so I'm mostly posting to preserve them for possible future use (whatever that may be). No discussion intended on my part, but if you feel like having one, go right ahead. :-)

12 China, Korea, Taiwan

8 Tonga

One could get the impression that China, Korea and Taiwan are some smallish isles in let's say the Pacific Ocean...

[Asashosakari 18,784]

12 China, Korea, Taiwan

8 Tonga

One could get the impression that China, Korea and Taiwan are some smallish isles in let's say the Pacific Ocean...

Or the other way around. Well, it is the Kingdom of Tonga...

[Jaak 7]

Taiwan are some smallish isles in let's say the Pacific Ocean...

Taiwan is indeed a smallish isle, and exactly in Pacific Ocean.