John Gunning

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/10/22/sumo/sumo-albert-hall-london/

Kinda annoying that this 'article' - which is basically just a recent column of mine stolen and very slightly altered - also got highlighted in Japanese domestic media as 'foreign media interested in women's sumo". Even more disappointing is the women's sumo federation sharing this rip-off of my work but not the original piece despite me being there, interviewing them and giving them the links. Sigh.

Full medal table

Today is the 3rd - which sounds rude if you pronounce it with certain Irish accents.

I have a nearly complete collection but there are a few issues missing from that period. If you have any I'm missing I'd gladly buy them.

Sept 2nd

I yelled at a cloud today.

Gernot is one of the few German / Austrian forum members from the early years that I never met in person, though we did communicate off-forum from time to time over the past two decades. Always straightforward and never one to sugarcoat things I appreciated the fact that you always got his true opinion on a topic. Most of our interactions over the years involved sumo tournament programs and efforts to uncover when they first became available for each out-of-Tokyo basho. Gernot almost certainly had the largest collection of programs outside of Japan, and I've never met any individual with one as complete inside of it either. He put his full collection online here. I didn't know he was sick, so it's a shock to hear of his passing. My condolences to his wife and family, as well as to @Jakusotsu and his close friends.

He was one of the guys who helped at the sumo demonstration I took the LA Dodgers to in March.

JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans

I'll go through them when I have more time but at a quick glance I can see... 34 - Daijuyama 38 - Kotogaume (not Kotomitsuki) 68 - Kotobeppu 76 - Yamato (George Kalima)

Music star Masuiyama, a former ōzeki who died Sunday at 76, blazed unique trail

From 2016, for about 5 years, we shot Grand Sumo Preview at his old Mihogaseki stable. Photo I took in 2006.  Chiyonofuji, Masuiyama, Kaiketsu, Kitanoumi, Hakuho, Asashoryu.

I usually tell people I'm Murray Johnson

Joins Minato Beya officially in a week or so. He trained with them last year.