Sumo articles by journalists who are Forum members/or not

[Mark.Buckton 68]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/dwindling-young-sumo-wrestlers-face-hard-life-in-japan-a-918003-2.html

English translation of German original - by Tokyo based writer Felix Lill.

And for those in the UK, there will be comments on this on Monocle and BBC radio in the next 24 hours or so.

[Mark.Buckton 68]

Kaisei piece signed off on - out in Japan in English and Japanese from the week after next.

[Mark.Buckton 68]

sumo is really hitting the papers / radiowaves again.

Listeners in Australia may want to listen to ABC the public broadcaster on the 13th around 2130 local time for an update on the state of the game in Japan.

Also, French fans will soon see a piece on Kisenosato and the possibilities of him becoming a yokozuna in l'Equipe.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Mark

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Mark

[ronnie 221]

I know it's semantics but, " in the middle of the upcoming basho.".

Surely he has quit prior to the upcoming basho after waiting to see if he might be slotted in at J1. That's just my opinion, by the way.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Jack Gallagher

[Asashosakari 19,653]

Don't know about anybody else, but to me that article reads like Gallagher happened across one he wrote but never published some two years ago and figured, "eh, nobody's going to notice the difference".

[specialweek 2 136]

Don't know about anybody else, but to me that article reads like Gallagher happened across one he wrote but never published some two years ago and figured, "eh, nobody's going to notice the difference".

You might be right. Wiggins, whom he quotes, has been writing for JT for about a year so perhaps there was a base article which he has updated.

Jack's expertise and passion is figure skating which seems to be his idea of a national sport. Amazing how many times there is a figure skating story in JT.

[Mark.Buckton 68]

for the interested, or those travelling to / from Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports this month on the Limousine Bus - the magazine at departure points around Tokyo, and in the bus itself (named: via) has a 3 page feature on Kaisei.

Nothing available online - in print only.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Mark and Hiroshi Kyodo (Mark is mentioned at the very end)

Edited October 1, 2013 by Kintamayama

[Mark.Buckton 68]

cheers Moti - these pick-ups always remind me to send in the invoices!

This one no. 126 in the time since the column started in early 2006!

[Mark.Buckton 68]

also, FWIW, fans of the popular British food writer Sybil Kapoor might want to keep an eye out for a piece she has done on chanko and a day at sumo.

Was asked to take her and her husband to the Kokugikan in May followed by chanko @ Kirishima - and her piece will be out in the November (October) issue of Conde Nast Traveller.

Second foodie visit this year after another famous UK chef!

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Mark

[Mark.Buckton 68]

cheers for the pick-up Kintamayama.

Start my 9th year there soon.

Apparently longest ever for what is a regular daily English language media. Few free weekly mags exceeded that but I am lucky, and honored to be given the opportunity.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Japan Times

[Mark.Buckton 68]

Conde Nast Traveller piece on sumo - out now understand.

By Sybil Kapoor. Lovely lady and great to intro her to the sport and post bout chanko. Great three page read.

(how can I upload pics now?)

[Mark.Buckton 68]

Spanish agency EFE journo working on a piece now for Spanish language fans of the sport - keep an eye out wherever EFE release.

[Mark.Buckton 68]

<English page>
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/indepth/exotic/JapanesQue/1312/sumo.html

<Simplified Chinese page>
http://www.welcome2japan.cn/indepth/exotic/JapanesQue/1312/sumo.html

<Traditional Chinese page for Hong Kong>
http://www.welcome2japan.hk/indepth/exotic/JapanesQue/1312/sumo.html

<Traditional Chinese page for Taiwan>
http://www.welcome2japan.tw/indepth/exotic/JapanesQue/1312/sumo.html

<Korean page>
http://www.welcometojapan.or.kr/indepth/exotic/JapanesQue/1312/sumo.html

[Akinomaki 40,774]

The English full version of the truncated article I mentioned a while ago is on the net:

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sports/sumo/AJ201311250013

Sd Ōrora (271kg, 193cm). Last year he returned to Russia to attend the wedding of his younger brother, a while since he was on a plane. After the return, with teary eyes: “Never again.”
The biggest problem for a very big rikishi is the small toilet on the plane. He can't turn around in there and has to enter backwards.
http://www.asahi.com/articles/SEB201311080043.html

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Probably by Mark, though I found no byline..

[Mark.Buckton 68]

Probably by Mark, though I found no byline..

yep - mine.

[Doitsuyama 1,192]

Nice, a whole basho preview without a single mention of Endo. I like it.

[Kintamayama 45,524]

Ken Shaw

[Asameshimae 220]

Orora, "The biggest problem for a very big rikishi is the small toilet on the plane. He can't turn around in there and has to enter backwards."

Giving no doubt as to what he plans to do in there! If he just went for a smoke, there'd be no need.