Japan female mayor battles men-only sumo rule
A female mayor at the center of a fierce debate over allowing women into the sumo ring vowed Thursday never to back down as she lodged a formal protest. “I
A female mayor at the center of a fierce debate over allowing women into the sumo ring vowed Thursday never to back down as she lodged a formal protest. “I
TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan’s sumo association has apologized over an incident in which women first responders were asked to get out of the ring as they attempted
As the rikishi of Arashio Beya (2-47-2, Hama-cho Nihonbashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo) began their morning practice on Black Saturday, I was still in bed surrounded by Pikachus in the Pokemon-themed room I had found on AirBnB. Guests can watch the sumo wrestlers through large windows between 7:30 to 10 a.m. during this almost daily session (see www.arashio.net/tour_e.html) and by the time I got there, practice was just wrapping up.
I’ve gone beyond large and may be on my way, if I don’t watch it, to the end of the line—size sumo. That, in any case, is the dreadful future previewed to me whenever I enter the Japanese shop Muji.
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