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	Japan Sumo Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Japan Sumo Association (日本相撲協会 or Nihon Sumo Kyokai) is the body that operates and controls professional sumo wrestling in Japan.
		The members of the Association receive a salary and are expected to assist in the running of the Association, from selling tickets at the most junior level, to taking charge of one of the Association Departments as a director.
		It is common for the most senior members of the Association to concentrate on their Association responsibilities and pass the day-to-day management of a stable to another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_Sumo_Association (479 words)

	Sumo in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sumo became popular to the general public first with the radio broadcast in 1928, and then with the television coverage beginning in 1953.
		The simple object of a sumo wrestler is to either force his opponent out of the ringed platform, or to make him touch the surface with any port of his body other than the soles of his feet.
		Although sumo is regarded exclusively as a spectator sport to most, for the aspiring sumo-wrestler, the road to becoming professional begins at an early age.
	web.mit.edu /21f.066/www/mhori/sumo.html (551 words)

	Konishiki Yasokichi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He entered sumo in 1982 and rose to the topmost makuuchi division in two years, a remarkably rapid rise.
		During his career he won the top division championship on three occasions and came close to becoming the first foreign born grand champion, or yokozuna, prompting first a debate as to whether a foreigner could have the necessary cultural understanding to be acceptable in sumo's ultimate rank.
		After winning two championships in three tournaments (his 2nd and 3rd overall) he publicly accused the Japan Sumo Association (the governing body of Japanese professional sumo) of racism for not promoting him to yokozuna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Konishiki (463 words)

	Independent Lens . SUMO EAST AND WEST . About Sumo \| PBS
		In ancient Japan, sumo was a ritual act, a dedication to the gods to pray for a good harvest.
		Sumo is mental as well as physical: the goal is to break your opponent’s concentration and either make him fall or force him out of the dohyo, or ring.
		Sumo is changing rapidly, and some view this as a metaphor for Japanese society’s own rapid changes, or as a result of globalization.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/sumoeastandwest/sumo.html (945 words)

	Japan Culture : Sumo Wrestling
		Sumo, or Sumo wrestling, is a competition contact sport wherein two wrestlers or rikishi face off in a circular area.
		The view of the Sumo Association is that it is a tradition passed down through the centuries.
		This issue came to a head when Fusae Ota, the female prefectural governor of Osaka repeatedly challenged the Sumo Association's policy by requesting she fulfill the Osaka governor's traditional role of presenting the Governor's Prize to the winner of the Osaka tournament, which would require her to enter the ring.
	japan.twinisles.com /culture/c017.php (1625 words)

	Japan Sumo Association to crack down on obesity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Many sumo watchers say the problem is a result of less strenuous training sessions for the wrestlers, resulting in bouts of pushing and shoving in which the heaviest man wins, rather than wrestling based on quickness or technique.
		Sumo, a 2,000 year-old sport with roots in Japan's indigenous Shinto religion, is a one-on-one sport fought by athletes trying to wrestle each other down or out of an elevated clay ring.
		In 1953, the average weight of a sumo wrestler was 317 pounds, while the average height was 5-foot 11, according to the sumo association.
	www.dimensionsmagazine.com /news/083958.htm (379 words)

	Yankees in the Dohyo: American Ascendancy in Sumo Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sumo became a means to a battle's end, and employed elements of wrestling, judo, and boxing.
		Sumo tournaments were once again performed for the pleasure of the gods, and the rituals which still mark every bout of every tournament became institutions.
		Konishiki's sumo was also lacking in grace; the rikishi himself described his technique as "strictly offensive." As the largest sumo wrestler in the recorded history of the sport, Konishiki won when he was able to square up an opponent and drive him straight down or back.
	www.frictionmagazine.com /sport/articles/sumo.asp (1691 words)

	Japan Omnibus - Sports - Sumo
		Sumo is one of the most popular professional sports in Japan and the image of two of these huge wrestlers grappling is one of the most famous images of Japan abroad.
		For the rikishi, sumo is more than a sport, it is a way of life, unbelievably tough for newcomers but with its rewards for those who reach the top.
		The decline in sumo's popularity after the Hanada boom of the mid-1990s was a big factor in the Sumo Association's increased flexibilty in allowing foreign wrestlers to join their ranks.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/sumo.shtml (1015 words)

	Japanese Sumo
		Professional sumo is one of the most interesting and exciting spectator sports in Japan for overseas visitors as well as the Japanese.
		The Japan Sumo Association sponsors six annual 15-day tournaments (basho or o-zumo): three in Tokyo at the Kokugikan Sumo Hall (January, May, September), one in Osaka (March), one in Nagoya (July), and one in Fukuoka (November).
		Japan Sumo Association (Nihon Sumo Kyokai), 1-3-28, Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130, 03-3623-5111; http://www.sumo.or.jp/eng/
	www.japanorama.com /sumo.html (419 words)

	Japan eyes first Sumo tournament in South Korea - smh.com.au
		The Japan Sumo Association plans to hold its first tournament in South Korea next year, said a spokeswoman for the nation's traditional wrestling body yesterday.
		The association has so far held Sumo events in 10 countries since the first overseas tour was in the former Soviet Union in 1965.
		Sumo is already broadcast on satellite television in South Korea and fans are said to be increasing, Kyodo said.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/10/1039379835784.html (302 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Sumo excludes woman governor
		Japan's first woman governor has conceded her first defeat in the battle against institutionalised sexism in the sumo wrestling ring.
		The association refused Miss Ota's request to present the prize, citing a long history and tradition which could not be changed overnight.
		But she said she hoped the Sumo Association would reconsider before the next bout is held in Osaka next year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/662040.stm (348 words)

	Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino :: Sumo Wrestling Invades Las Vegas for First Time in the Sport's 1,500-Year History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Grand Sumo Las Vegas is being produced by Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Inc. of Japan, in association with Mandalay Bay and is sponsored in part by Toshiba and Japan Airlines.
		Sumo transcends sport in Japan as it is interwoven with the culture.
		The association operates and controls all aspects of professional sumo wrestling in Japan from the rules of the dohyo to the training of new sumo wrestlers.
	sev.prnewswire.com /sports/20050721/LATH11521072005-1.html (677 words)

	Sumo wrestles with its weightiest problem - smh.com.au
		After crashing through several glass ceilings to become governor of Japan's third largest city, it is not surprising that Ms Ohta is taking the fight up to the Sumo Association over such a blatant case of gender inequality.
		Yet if sumo is to survive and prosper it may have to eventually yield to the governor's push.
		The association's position was put by Makiko Uchidate, a woman who sits on the screening committee that determines which wrestlers are elevated to the highest yokozuna rank.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/14/1047583701566.html (685 words)

	ABC News: Sumo Fans Back Ban on Women in Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		TOKYO Feb 8, 2006 (AP)— A majority of Japanese sumo fans support a tradition which bans women from stepping on the raised dirt wrestling mound, according to a survey released by the Japan Sumo Association on Wednesday.
		The association conducted the survey, distributing 350 questionnaires at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sept. 12 for a response rate of 51 percent, Kyodo News Agency said.
		The eligibility of women to enter the sumo ring became controversial in recent years when the female governor of Osaka repeatedly requested she be allowed on the mound to present a prize to the winning wrestler, as her male predecessors had done.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1593851&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (329 words)

	The Last Sumotori - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Japan Sumo Association declares that foreign sumotori who wish to open their own stables must henceforth take Japanese citizenship first.
		Japan Sumo Association announces a policy of limiting the number of foreigners to a maximum of one per stable.
		His 1992 showdown with Takanohana was seen on television by 62 percent of households in Japan and launched him to a prominence that included a role in the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Oct/02/sp/sp15a.html (2299 words)

	Poll: Majority sumo fans support ban on women in ring - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The eligibility of women to enter the sumo ring has become a controversial issue in recent years since the female governor of Osaka has repeatedly requested she be allowed on the traditional mound to present a prize to the winning wrestler, as her male predecessors have done.
		Since her election in 2000, the Japan Sumo Association has banned Ota from presenting the prize to the tournament winner, saying that women have traditionally been prohibited from entering the ring.
		The sumo association conducted the survey, distributing 350 questionnaires at the Tokyo venue for a response rate of 51 percent, Kyodo said.
	news.inq7.net /world/index.php?index=1&story_id=65555 (461 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
		JSA Chairman Tokitsukaze told reporters that 18 active wrestlers named by Itai as being involved in match-fixing have all denied the allegations, but he surprisingly indicated that the association will not go through with its threat of legal action.
		Itai, a former komusubi, claimed at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in January and February that the practice of "yaocho" is commonplace in sumo and named 18 wrestlers - including yokozuna Akebono - who, he said, are regularly involved in bout-rigging.
		However, JSA officials are happy that the 18 wrestlers, questioned during the provincial tour earlier this month, are "clean" and again challenged Itai to produce some concrete evidence to back up his allegations.
	starbulletin.com /2000/04/25/sports/sumo.html (719 words)

	PROFESSIONAL SUMO
		Currently professional Sumo is organised by the Japan Sumo Association.
		Sumo wrestling is a strict hierarchy based on sporting merit.
		Professional Sumo is practiced exclusively in Japan, where it originated, but wrestlers of other nationalities participate.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/sumo_professional.html (1110 words)

	FightingArts.com - A Tear Over Sumo Pants
		Amongst the Sumo community there is concern about the long term future of the sport faced with declining membership among younger Japanese and a national sports audience seemingly more attracted to non-indigenous sports, such as baseball and football.
		But the Professional Japan Sumo Association, the Nihon Sumo Kyokai, strong objected, refusing to allow youth tournament participants to wear the proposed pant at the sport’s most prestigious location, the Hall of the National Pursuit in the Ryogoku district of Tokyo.
		The proposed “sumo pants” are a tight, thigh-length garment, which cover the wrestler’s buttocks as they crouch down to face one another in the ring.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=467 (836 words)

	0026 Professional Sumo Wrestlers
		Sumo is a national sport of Japan that is centuries old.
		Sumo wrestlers belong to a stable or training area where they live and work under the guidance of a stable master, coaches, and higher ranked wrestlers.
		Sumo wrestlers are assigned to one of 11 ranks.
	www.hawaii.gov /workforce/CARINFO/SPORTOCC/SUMO.HTM (875 words)

	Sumo
		Sumo is a Japanese style of wrestling and Japan's national sport.
		The basic rules of sumo are simple: The wrestler who either first touches the floor with something else than his sole or leaves the ring before his opponent, loses.
		The wrestlers are living in special sumo stables where the rules are very strict, especially for lower ranked wrestlers.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2080.html (282 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Japan wrestles with sumo crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But sumo has fallen a long way in a short time and, some believe, a sport that can trace its roots back 2000 years is in crisis.
		As the present crop of Japanese wrestlers fails to perform, however, fewer boys are applying to the Japan Sumo Association to become trainees.
		Takanohana and Wakanohana, his older brother, were the darlings of Japan's sumo-going public from the mid-1990s, with the media buzzing over their private lives and the JSA hoping that a "new generation" of wrestlers would reinvigorate a tradition that was losing its appeal to football, baseball and other imported sports.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/C849036A-F28F-426B-AC53-1318734A8958.htm (1077 words)

	Cameron Beccario : Sumo
		For those of you who think Sumo wrestling is a bunch of obese half-naked men pushing each other around, well...
		Sumo is so much more than this simplistic definition.
		Since there are no weight-limitations in sumo, we sometimes saw huge rikishi matched against astonishingly small opponents.
	blogs.msdn.com /cambecc/archive/2004/07/12/180534.aspx (670 words)

	SI.com - More Sports - Kotooshu quickest to reach sumo's ozeki rank - Wednesday November 30, 2005 12:57AM
		Sumo has been hit by waves of foreign invasions, first by the Hawaiians in the 1980s, then by the Mongolians in the 1990s and now by the Europeans.
		While the participation of foreigners raised eyebrows in the conservative sumo world in the past, opposition has faded in recent years and the rivalry between Asashoryu and Kotooshu is being credited with a slight recovery in the sport's popularity.
		The sumo association limits sumo stables, where wrestlers live and train under a master, to only one foreign wrestler, saying the rule is necessary to maintain the traditions of Japan's national sport.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /rssclick/2005/more/11/30/sumo/index.html?section=si_latest (691 words)

	'Prince of Sumo' dead at 55
		Hanada, during his 16-year career in the ring, came to be known affectionately as the "Prince of Sumo," rising to the sport's second-highest rank of ozeki.
		Hanada, who also fought under the ring name of Takanohana, rose to sumo's top makuuchi division at the record early age of 18 under the training of his elder brother, Katsuji, the first Wakanohana and also a grand champion.
		He retired in 1981 and later became director of the Japan Sumo Association.
	www.oralcancerfoundation.org /news/story.asp?newsId=791 (170 words)

	Sumo - traditional Japanese wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The first sumo matches are believed to have been a form of ritual dedicated to the gods and were performed together with dancing and dramas within the grounds of certain shrines.
		After Japan was united under the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603 professional sumo groups were organized to entertain the rapidly expanding working class and sumo became the national sport of Japan.
		The sumo association from Tokyo combined with the association from Osaka in 1927 to form the modern Sumo 'Kyokai' (the official association or administration).
	www.yamasa.org /acjs/network/spanish/newsletter/things_japanese_15.html (899 words)

	Salon.com travel \| Sumo wrestler flashes Japan on TV
		In Japan, sumo wrestlers are the gods of sport, the recipients of reverence and respect.
		According to the report, his face went beet red when a sumo elder, who was sitting ringside, spotted the wrestler's exposed penis and called for him to forfeit the match.
		Sumo wrestlers' loincloths are carefully secured by 23- to 26-foot-long "mawashi" belts, which get wrapped tightly around the wrestlers' super-sized bodies so that they never come loose.
	archive.salon.com /travel/planet/2000/05/30/sumo/index.html (313 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Japan's ancient sport to make three-day stop in Las Vegas
		The Japan Sumo Association announced Tuesday that it will stage a three-day event in Las Vegas in October, giving tourists in the gambling Mecca another outlet for their entertainment dollar.
		Sumo, which has a 1,500-year history, regularly stages overseas tours and most recently held an event in China in June.
		Sumo held a tournament at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1985.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/jan/25/012510295.html (333 words)

	Mysterious Sumo Deaths
		The better known of the two men, Kan Konosuke, and former sumo stablemaster Onaruto, was in the midst of writing a series of scathing attacks on the Association for the Weekly Post, one of Japan's sensationalistic weeklies.
		Both men, like many sumo wrestlers, suffered from diabetes, and in fact one of the well-known hazards of the sport is early death, most likely as a result of obesity.
		It seems clear, then, that the Association wanted these men out of the way, and it is whispered that there was a reward out for anyone who could stop the series from continuing.
	www.zmag.org /Japanwatch/17-Sumo.html (977 words)

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