Re: Sumo News: numbers of foreign rikishi

[Achim Pawelczyk <sumo@achimp.de>]

At 04:00 05.02.02 +0000, Joe Petrow wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:16:30PM -0800, Masumi Abe wrote:
>> As of the end of Hatsu-basho this year, there were 53 sumo-beya.
>> After the merger between Takasago-beya and Wakamatsu-beya, it
>> will be 52 sumo-beya.
>> 
>> There are 41 foreign rikishi at the moment, excluding Musashimaru and
>> Hoshitango who are naturalized Japanese citizens.
>
>Anybody know what Sentoryu's status is?

Those living in Japan for 10 or more years are not counted as foreign
rikishi. This was also common practise so far, according to the Asahi shimbun.
Sentoryu seems to fall into that category, first doyho appearance in 1988.
That would explain the 41 in spite of the 40 limit.



Akinomaki

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