Word: takemikazuchi
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Without sumo wrestling, there might be no Japan. According to legend, the Japanese won their homeland in a sumo match between a Shinto god named Takemikazuchi and an aborigine. Takemikazuchi "crushed his opponent like grass" and thus took the deed to the Land of the Rising...
Legend has it that the Japanese won their homeland in a sumo match between a Shinto god named Takemikazuchi and a local aborigine. In the good old days, 2,000 years ago, wrestlers fought to the death, cracking skulls and stomping ribs with ferocious abandon. Today's sumo heroes have a more limited objective-only to knock an opponent off his feet or force him outside a 15-ft. ring...
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