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Harumafuji activities

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3 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Harumafuji is at a talk event on Oct. 1st at the Global Festa Japan2022 in the Tokyo International Forum, he's the one to talk about Sumo-do and school education https://magazinesummit.jp/lifetrend/94746220907

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I LOVE his artwork in the background.  He is so talented.  I see he is still having a love affair with Mt Fuji.

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On 08/09/2022 at 04:17, sumojoann said:

I LOVE his artwork in the background.  He is so talented.  I see he is still having a love affair with Mt Fuji.

Not really, those are his old pieces.

the new ones on his twitter account show some flair for Jackson Pollock swirly splatters

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An article with sketches of Ulaanbaatar for 50 years of Japan-Mongolia relations as last item has "yokozuna" - and it is about the Harumafuji school http://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/articles/-/125022

The school in Japanese is the Shin-Mongol-Harumafuji-gakuen 新モンゴル日馬富士学園 - New Mongol HF academy, but actually it calls itself the Shine Mongol Harumafuji school - I hadn't noticed that detail yet http://shinemongolharumafuji.edu.mn/

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with yusho portrait in the hall of course https://shine-mongol-harumafuji-school.business.site/#gallery

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judo, taekwondo, gymnastics - but no sumo at the school apparently

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No sumo at the yokozuna's school? Unacceptable! 

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On 27/05/2022 at 15:17, Akinomaki said:

2 of Harumafuji's Nagoya basho yusho portraits are on display at the Hirasawa Mitake shrine (御嶽, same kanji, Mitakeumi is named after Mt. Ontake though) in Hadano, Kanagawa: just removed from the kokugikan wall, for the 2016 yusho as yokozuna and the one for the 2012 zensho yusho as ozeki. The chief priest of this shrine and the Izumo-taisha Sagami branch shrine in Hadano has a strong connection to Isegahama-beya and also is the one to produce the shikona Harumafuji, he received the portraits from HF.  http://www.townnews.co.jp/0610/2022/05/13/624955.html

Harumafuji was at the Izumo-taisha Sagami branch shrine in Hadano on the 27th to meet the shrine top Kusayama who also scouted him, and to interact with the locals

https://www.kanaloco.jp/news/life/article-959397.html

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Kusayama with now his portraits

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On 30/12/2022 at 09:58, Akinomaki said:

Harumafuji was at the Izumo-taisha Sagami branch shrine in Hadano on the 27th to meet the shrine top Kusayama who also scouted him, and to interact with the locals

Harumafuji was in Hadano after 3 years again. He visited the wagashi confectionery store run by the shrine with the last art work from the Shutter Project Hadano on the shutter https://izumo-kinenkan.com/6339/

It shows his yusho portrait in the store and the rikishi related to the shrine. http://www.townnews.co.jp/0610/2023/01/06/658782.html

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I wonder if  the shrine has any more portraits apart from these 3

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Plenty of activities by Harumafuji in Japan recently, I had no time to post them yet

July 5th in Hiroshima to thank the mayor for the donation of 4 ambulance cars to Mongolia in cooperation with the Heart Saving Project NPO - his father had died in a traffic accident

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June 5th: signing an agreement for the cooperation of his school with Niigata Sanjo high http://www.kenoh.com/2023/06/05_harumafuji.html

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May 5th, with now actor Tomisakae Drum (Sanctuary and the new TBS TV drama VIVANT)

http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2023/07/17/0016595377.shtml

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On 13/03/2021 at 10:21, Akinomaki said:
On 16/02/2021 at 02:20, pricklypomegranate said:

Harumafuji is scheduled to complete his Masters degree at the Josai International University Graduate school this spring.

Harumafuji received an excellence award for his master's thesis

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Harumafuji today got a honorary doctorate from Tokyo international university o

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for gambarizing as with Japanese spirit

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Dec. 7th last year https://www.tiu.ac.jp/news/detail/news_20221212_01.html

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The work he does with education is quite impressive. To open and run a school requires not only ambition but also a great deal of caring about the public good, which is quite refreshing to see in the sumo world. 

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Plenty of activities recently - at a symposium about martial arts in Oyama town, Shizuoka on the 22nd 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wdtZnnXss

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On the 24th at the Niigata prefectural office o

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to report that the Niigata University of Pharmacy and Medical and Life Sciences and Harumafuji's school entered into a cooperation, to have graduates from his school as ryugakusei in Niigata - on the 25th at the university:

https://www.nupals.ac.jp/topics/topics-12850/

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Such a shame he was cast away from the world of sumo as he was, but in his case, it appears he's doing far more good outside of it than he could have by remaining on the inside. 

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While at first coming and going between Japan and Mongolia, Harumafuji now lives with the family in Mongolia. In the cellar of his Shin(e) Mongol Harumafuji school is a dohyo, but it isn't used: there are no students who want to do sumo, they want to learn about Japan - and he wants to convey Japanese tradition by way of the teachings of sumo, not by sumo itself. There are thoughts to open the dohyo to the locals.

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Apart from the school, he also started a company that runs a dairy farm, with know-how from Hokkaido, to provide milk from Mongolia for the school lunch. If production increases, he may sell it also outside the school.

 

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The ambassador of Japan was at the school in late March https://www.mn.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/harumafuji20240322_jp.html

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and lately ex-YDC top Yano

The school has a Japanese-Mongolian homepage, with mostly Japanese https://jp.shinemongolharumafuji.edu.mn/新モンゴル日馬富士学園応援者コーナー

and one English-Mongolian, with 99% Mongolian http://en.shinemongolharumafuji.edu.mn/

gallery http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ss-230642252/230642252

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