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Amateur tourneys offer window to sport’s future stars

Future sekitori (wrestlers in the top two divisions) currently known as Tochinoshin (left), Goeido (second from left) and Kaisei (right) pose with Hungarian Masuto at the medal ceremony of the 2004 Junior World Sumo Championships in Osaka. | KATRINA WATTS

Future sekitori (wrestlers in the top two divisions) currently known as Tochinoshin (left), Goeido (second from left) and Kaisei (right) pose with Hungarian Masuto at the medal ceremony of the 2004 Junior World Sumo Championships in Osaka. | KATRINA WATTS

By John Gunning

Jun 5, 2019

Asanoyama is sumo’s latest champion.

The Takasago stable wrestler’s victory in the May tournament makes him the fourth rikishi to win a debut championship in the past six meets — something that hasn’t happened in 19 years.

Asanoyama is also one of four former amateur sumo wrestlers to lift the Emperor’s Cup since the start of 2018.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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