Word: chiyonofuji
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...room at the State Department. The grapplers were in the U.S. for the first sanctioned sumo match abroad, in the hopes of winning new friends for Japan and the sport. Shultz, who was filling in at the last minute for the President, gamely turned to 268- lb. Grand Champion Chiyonofuji, 30, and 491-lb. Konishiki, 21, and said, "Welcome to our country." Replied Konishiki: "Hey, thanks, but I'm an American." Born Salevaa Atisnoe in Hawaii, the quarter-tonner stands on the edge of becoming a sekiwake, the sport's third highest rank, something no American has ever achieved. Hulk...
...ceremony. Posters in Tokyo subways, featuring dainty brides and dapper grooms, offer such cut-rate packages as the "Shining Love" ceremony ($2,500), performed in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's luxe hotels. At the top of the line, however, was the recent marriage of Chiyonofuji, a Grand Champion sumo wrestler. Price: $580,000. His bride's three ceremonial kimonos alone cost $370,000. One minor craze in the current Nipponese nuptial season is the extravagant "performance" wedding. At one service, the star-struck couple ascended to the ceiling in a makeshift space capsule trailing...
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