Word: sumo
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...Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA L'oeuf bug! A cybervirus as lethal as its Philippine cousin travels under the leggy tennis star's name TINTIN Zut alors! A bawdy spoof sends the francophone toon traveler on a salacious trip to Thailand AKEBONO First foreign sumo champ crashes motorcycle, then apologizes. To the bike? Verbatim...
That may be wishful thinking, and there's certainly a lot of that in the bot business. Tiger claims its Mousies can sumo wrestle, but it takes a vivid imagination to interpret their random bumping as sumo body blows. Likewise, the company's seemingly endless line of Robo-Chi toys (cat, bird, dogs, even a plant) do little more than bark and squawk at one another...
...Japanese have a word, haragei, which refers to the hara, the belly (as in hara-kiri) which is, in Japanese culture, what the heart is in the Western tradition: the core and home of will, authentic emotion, sincerity. Haragei, (a sumo wrestling match of contesting authenticities; the art and politics of the gut, basically) is not articulate or rational, but merely asserts its mystic will. Some Japanese have worried that their country's politicians rely too much on haragei, and have suggested that Japanese should westernize themselves toward more rational, systematic debate...
...game was astonishing, and the same applies to Tag Tournament. Each of the 30-odd characters has its own martial arts style based on reality, with some admittedly outrageous tweaks. This means you can create everyone's fantasy martial arts movie by staging battles pitting endless combinations of combatants: Sumo vs. (Space) Samurai, Thai Boxing vs. Tae Kwon Do, Kangaroo vs. Bear...
...home of sumo wrestling, marathon running is big. So big that tiny Naoko Takahashi - 163 cms and 47 kg - has already become a national hero. She staked a claim for a place in the pantheon of Japanese sport with her gold medal-winning performance in Sunday's Olympic marathon. Not only did she win, but she recorded a new Olympic record time of two hours, 23 minutes, 14 seconds and scored Japan's first-ever women's athletic gold...