Re: company sumo league?

["Katrina" <katrina@shoin.ac.jp>]

There are quite a lot of these company teams, also prefectural ones, both in
men's and women's sumo.  In fact tomorrow is the All Japan Amateur Sumo
Championships (men) in the Kokugikan, in which amateurs from all walks of
life, as well high school and college athletes, will compete for the All
Japan Yokozuna title.  This is the title that Takamisakari (Kato) so
surprisingly and splendidly won in his graduating year.  Surprising since
Kotomitsuki (Tamiya), the All Japan University Yokozuna was the hands down
favourite. An unfortuante slip in a preliminary round turned him into a
hands down loser on that occasion and opened the way for his team mate Kato
to take the title.

I'm looking forward to seeing Hamanishiki's older brother who competes for
the Kumamoto Teachers' team and the graduating college athletes, Miyoshi
from Kinki University and Akita Narita from Chuo University, who may well
turn up in the pros early next year.  In addition the amateur world
champions Osanai and Tsushima should be there, as well as several others
I've enjoyed watching in international competitions, like Yajima, who
competes for Nippon Tsushin, a transport company.

It starts at 11am, for anyone in Tokyo who feels like going along to enjoy
some spirited sumo, and the finals will be televised on NHK general TV from
4:00 - 6:00.

Katrina
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From: "Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>
>To: sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu
>Subject: company sumo league?
>Date: Sat, Dec 8, 2001, 9:58 AM
>

> Found this in today's Japan Times. Mentions something about a sumo team.
> Lead me to wondering whether there was a company sumo league like they have
> for baseball etc. Have never heard anything about it, where as you often
> hear about college sumo. does anyone have any information?
>
> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getsp.pl5?sp20011208a1.htm
>
> Kotobukiya to disband teams
>
> KUMAMOTO (Kyodo) Kotobukiya Co., the largest supermarket chain operator in
> Kyushu, said Friday it will disband all four sports teams at the end of next
> March as part of the company's restructuring effort.
>
> Kumamoto-based Kotobukiya, established in 1949, has decided to shut down its
> table tennis, women's athletics, women's kyudo (Japanese archery) and sumo
> teams run by the name of La La La. Kotobukiya's table tennis team features
> Seiko Iseki, a naturalized player who won the men's doubles gold medal for
> China at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
>
> He will soon begin searching for a team to join individually. Meanwhile,
> Kotobukiya is looking for a club to accept all members of its women's
> athletics team, including Aki Fujikawa who placed eighth in last year's
> Nagoya International Women's Marathon.
>
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