2020->2023 Kagoshima Kokutai
The sumo event of the 2020 75th kokutai in Kagoshima is scheduled to take place from Oct 9th till 11th in Amami-city. Discussions about cancelling also the kokutai (or just sumo among other sports) will go on, but it looks rather likely that it will take place.
Sumo at the preliminary prefecture level athletic meet events (kentai) is reported as planned for some regions, some will have it in substitutes for canceled pref. level interhigh tournaments, others not, but there were no reports of canceled kentai yet /topic/interhigh-2020-canceled/
The countdown for the sumo event was started in May last year http://amamishimbun.co.jp/2020/06/13/25458/
Kokutai yokozuna Kawabuchi o
individuals 2nd round Yamazaki-Kurita - sdTD for Yamazaki (Kindai 4th year)
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Other 4th years with sdTD: Hirano from Chudai https://chuosumo.org/メンバー紹介/198-2/ and Kitano from Komazawa-dai o
Winning team Tottori, 3rd yusho after 14 years again: coach, Sosorkhuu, Nakajima, Matsui - all corporate sumo, but 2 just graduated from high school, ex-student yokozuna Nakajima (Nichidai coach) is 27 - o
deciding bout in the final vs. Ishikawa by Nakajima
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Matsui getting the grip in the first round of the final tournament vs. Aomori's Saito
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Niigata went for the 6th yusho in a row but finished 4th - last year they had Nakamura
Juniors runner-up Wakayama
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For nearly a week now each day the JAL problems with overweight are in the news, yesterday the wide shows reported on the "Dosukoi panic" o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y74rE3aTqMQ
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mentioned here as well
