Word: sumo
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...people are suffering too from lack of housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor and his people. Only rarely was he allowed to leave the palace grounds, to attend a sumo (wrestling) tournament, to plant a tree in Arbor Week...
...Japanese were the first Asian people to turn from the ceremonial, protocol-stiff sports (sumo, jujitsu) of their past to more competitive Western athletics. They have also consistently produced the only
When 30 Japanese police tried to arrest her, they were met by a one-man banzai charge by 380-pound Futubayama, until recently Sumo wrestling* champion of Japan. Once subdued (it took 30 minutes), Futubayama renounced the goddess. Jiko-san was judged a religious paranoiac, and released. But the continuing popularity of her brand of paranoia was affirmed when the unofficial "New Masses Party" loosed two assassins on Labor Leader Katsumi Kikunani, whose Tokyo unionists were preparing a general strike...
...that he could contemplate his precise garden and bask in the afternoon sunshine. His brown, rough-silk kimono lay open from shoulder to ankle, his undershirt was unbuttoned, he wiggled his toes in white, mitten-like socks. His radio blared a grunt-by-grunt account of the winter sumo wrestling matches...
Incidentally, just before I left Japan one of the sumo wrestlers said he was retiring from the sumo ring to study boxing and become the world's champion. Keep your eyes open for this man, he is bigger than Primo Camera...