Web Magazine "SUMO"

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

I personally think that it's unrealistic to think that any of Baseball 
Magazine, Yomiuri Shimbun, or NHK would publish English version of their 
sumo magazines. The market size is way too small for a major magazine 
publisher to have editorial and translation staff, even of they are 
part-time workers.

First, I thought about getting translation permit from the Japanese sumo 
magazine publishers, Baseball Magazine, Yomiuri Shimbun, and NHK, but 
probably it's next to impossible to get free English translation rights 
from all writers.

The practical and probably the best approach would be to write reports on 
what's written in those magazines and clearly states where the information 
from. Also, we should write "if you feel this magazine spoils your copy 
rights, please contact Editor-In-Chief of this magazine, immediately" in 
the home page.

Having objective sumo records won't be a problem. So, we could start from 
the collection of the records from these magazines. We have people very 
closely related to Dewanoumi-beya (Doreen) and Michinoku-beya (Liliane) for 
example. They could report about those heya every now and then.

I have a small sumo library and I could write some sumo information from 
them, once in a while, if I have a time.

Also, we could compile links with extensive web information on sumo, like a 
sumo encyclopedia. We should treat this project as an on-going project. 
With utilizing existing sumo sites, not too many items needed to be written 
to start with.

At last, if we compile the valuable posts from the ML for the Web Magazine, 
it will be a lot easier than going through the past log.

-Masumi