RE: Still more about the life expectancy of the retired rikishi

["Joshua A. Reyer" <jreyer@grn.mmtr.or.jp>]

> According to CIA World Factbook
> (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ja.html#People) the
> average life expectancy of Japanese males is 77.51 years. Naturally it
> has been lower at the time ozeki and yokozuna listed above were born but
> I think it's quite safe to say that if a teenage boy thinks about
> starting a long and (especially) successful career in ozumo, he must be
> prepared to sacrifice several years of his life to achieve it.

I'll have to go digging in my old copies of Ozumo Magazine, but I believe
that Nakamoto-sensei mentioned once that while external injuries were up,
better conditioning and nutrition meant that today's rikishi don't suffer
from the internal diseases as the rikishi of the past did...

Josh