Outgoing Japan Sumo Association chairman Kitanoumi (L) listens...

Article: Heavy hitters; The Japan Sumo ...
The Economist (US);  February 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 ...

Article: Sumo. (Look Out Post).(Japan Sumo ...
Look Japan;  May 1, 2002 ;     433 words ...Just when you thought Japan was becoming more cosmopolitan ... The Japan Sumo Association announced Feb. 4 that it would halve the limit on the number of foreign wrestlers to one per stable, even while the association ...

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

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 ...

Japan Sumo Death
AP Images;  October 5, 2007 ;     230 words ...Sumo stable master Tokitsukaze, left, is mobbed by journalists as he leaves Japan Sumo Association executive committee meeting in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. The association Friday fired Tokitsukaze, 57, the trainer of a ...

Japan Sumo Scandal
AP Images;  September 8, 2008 ;     272 words ... ... whose name is Baradzov Batraz Feliksovich, tested positive for marijuana after urine tests carried out by the Japan Sumo Association's anti-doping panel Tuesday, two weeks after another Russian wrestler Wakanoho was banned for life after ...

Japan Sumo Drug Scandal
AP Images;  February 5, 2009 ;     261 words ...In this , Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi, right, announces his resignation during a press conference at Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo, as ...