Word: toshinori
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When the Russian-born sumo wrestler Wakanoho Toshinori (real name Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev) dropped his wallet on a street in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on June 24, he might have seemed to be in luck: The wallet was found by an honest woman, who delivered it, with its contents intact, to a police station. Unfortunately for the young rikishi, as sumo wrestlers are known, the contents of his wallet included not only money and his alien registration card, but also a joint containing 0.368 grams of marijuana. On August 18, Wakanoho was arrested, and a search of his residence turned...
...lotus position and stand in the rain shouting Ogami's commandments. He took the stage on these outings, rambling for hours about the Japanese spirit and the country's honorable role in World War II. "We all shut up and stuck it out because we needed the salary," sighs Toshinori Nakajima, an executive appointed acting president before he quit last fall. "No one actually believed in any of the stuff...
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