Newly appointed sumo association chairman, Musasigawa (C), speaks...

Outgoing Japan Sumo Association chairman Kitanoumi (L) ...
Getty Images;  September 8, 2008 ;     248 words ...AFP Getty Images 09-08-2008 Outgoing Japan Sumo Association chairman Kitanoumi ... Outgoing Japan Sumo Association chairman Kitanoumi ... the country's sumo association, resigned from ... read AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Copyright ...

Article: Japanese Sumo Association reports on trip to ...
PR Newswire;  April 7, 1988 ;     549 words .../MEDIA ADVISORY/ JAPANESE SUMO ASSOCIATION REPORTS ON TRIP TO WASHINGTON STATE The Japanese Sumo Association will hold a press conference at 2 ... level delegates of the Japanese Sumo Association. This trip was sponsored by the ...

Article: Report: panel urges Osaka governor to snub sumo ...
AP Worldstream;  March 12, 2004 ;     366 words ... ... long-standing feud with the Japan Sumo Association over her request to enter the sumo ... Since her election in 2000, the Japan Sumo Association has banned Ota from presenting the ... Ota to enter the ring, the Japan Sumo Association has taken an uncooperative stance ...

Article: Report: Sumo Association considers drug tests for ...
AP Worldstream;  January 5, 2003 ;     372 words ... ... sport, a major Japanese newspaper reported Sunday. The Sumo Association could conduct urine tests during the twice-a- year medical ... were absent _ the most since World War II. Last year, Sumo Association chairman Kitanoumi, a former yokozuna, speculated that ...

Article: Sumo surging.(SPORTS BUSINESS)(California Sumo ...
Los Angeles Business Journal;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The Santa Monica-based California Sumo Association is preparing for its largest event yet when it hosts ... with parking." Freund, who founded the California Sumo Association 10 years ago, hopes that the seventh annual event will ...

Article: Sumo association, Asashoryu sue publisher over ...
Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan);  February 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Feb. 23--TOKYO -- The Japan Sumo Association and 17 sumo wrestlers, including Mongolian-born grand champion Asashoryu, filed a lawsuit Friday against a magazine publisher ...

Article: Heavy hitters; The Japan Sumo Association.(Japan's ...
The Economist (US);  February 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... several times tried to run away from the stable. The police ascribed the death to "natural causes" and the powerful Japan Sumo Association (JSA) accepted it. Only when the stablemaster, Junichi Yamamoto, pressed the family to cremate the body quickly did ...