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Kaio statue

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The new bronze statue of Kaio at the JR station of his hometown Nogata, 238cm high, 116cm wide, 480kg.
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22.8 million Yen of donations had been collected, 16 million was the target.
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20141026/sum14102617550002-n1.html

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Very impressive and ... good likeness of him!

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some more pics
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in the making
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Rather worrying that he has not been able to lose some weight. In fact, I think, he gained a bit

They always seem to look bigger in civvies, but you could be right.

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brilliant stuff, I mean tottari brilliant!

Looks like we'll have a great basho coming up - at least commentary wise.

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There are (and were) very few persons on this planet who can say, that they sill alive to see an over-live-size statue of themselfs.

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Maybe they just wanted to see if the sagari were detachable like during a match? (Scratching chin...)

(Still wouldn't explain the graffiti of course...)

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Must've been Asa on his way home veeery late at night I am pretty sure...

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The first thing I thought when I saw that statue was "those sagari look highly breakable". For some bored hooligans, they look like an easy target, and then a trend gets started..

The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen gets vandalized now and then. I mean, come on, what did she ever do to anyone?

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I guess the solution is to paint the real Kaio bronze and have him stand there one night... One of his good old kotenage and I doubt anyone will extend an arm with a spray can again :-p

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I guess the solution is to paint the real Kaio bronze and have him stand there one night... One of his good old kotenage and I doubt anyone will extend an arm with a spray can again :-P

The image of Kaio executing a kotenage on a hoodlum with a spray can in his hand is now etched in my mind. There are worse things to be etched there. :-)

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