Word: sumo
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...event, students slipped into padded sumo suits to wrestle their peers while others sparred in a flimsy inflatable stadium. The entertainment at Yardfest also included an oversized Twister board, basketball hoops, and an assortment of games "that embrace the often competitive nature of the undergraduate population," said Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05, an organizer...
...Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” opens with three attractive Japanese girls posing in a dimly-lit subterranean room and brandishing knives and saws in front of a businessman before proceeding to tape hamburgers all over his body, then releasing him into a dusty street filled with hungry sumo-wrestler types. It’s bizarre and a little disturbing, but what do you expect from a band whose live shows feature bunny suits and fake blood? Besides, seeing a bunch of fat men chasing a guy covered in burgers is fantastic in a slightly inappropriate way, as is another...
Japanese political life is usually as exciting as a Noh play. But the events leading up to September's Diet election had all the thrills of a sumo smackdown. In August, the Diet had voted down one of the most cherished reform projects of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?a plan to privatize the government postal system, which, among other things, is the world's largest savings bank. Koizumi then made good on a threat many had considered a bluff. He dissolved the Diet's lower house and called a snap election, positioning the vote as a referendum on whether...
...President of Chile is as arbitrary as saying that I would like to be the world champion of sumo wrestling in Japan...
...Performance of the Week In his hometown of Dzuljunica, Bulgaria, he is known as Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov. But in Japan, he is KOTOOSHU, the country's hottest sumo wrestler. After a brilliant performance in last month's Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament (which included his decisive defeat of Japan's top-ranked wrestler), the Japan Sumo Association promoted the 22-year-old to ozeki, the sport's second-highest rank. The 143-kg former amateur wrestling champ is the first European to hold the title, and he achieved it in just 19 tournaments?the fastest advance in the history of Japan...