Re: Russian and Mongol Rikishi soon

[Eric Sevin <esevin@divi.com>]

Anyone have an update on any new Hawaiians entering the
Japan Sumo ranks?  Or perhaps after the current group has
retired will there be no more Hawaiians in Japanese Sumo?
Just wondering how far the Japan Sumo Association will
go with their semi-selective boycott of potential Hawaiian
talent.





Achim Pawelczyk wrote:

> Here he comes again:
> 16 year-old 190 cm tall over 200 kg Anatoly Mihahanow (spell?) from Russia,
>  will enter Kitanoumi-beya.
> Back to Japan on the 10th, at first 3 months of language training and first
> time on the dohyo in March.
>
> And another Mongolian (I skip the try at the katakana name).
> The little brother of Kyokutenho will have his first dohyo appearance in
> the Hatsu basho in January (after the check for new entrants on Dec. 24th.).
> He will enter Takashima-beya. His brother and Kyokushuzan are in
> Oshima-beya (+Kyokutenzan: they already have their full contingent of 3
> allowed foreigners ?).
> Being in Japan since August after finishing  middle school in June, he
> already completed his 3 months language training.
>
> Two other Mongolians will also have their debut in January.
>
> Nikkan Sports general sports page:
> http://www.nikkansports.com/news/sports/sp-news.html#smy
> -http://www.nikkansports.com/news/image/sp-news_1.jpg
>
> Akinomaki
>
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