Re: Web Magazine "SUMO"

["Matthew Salter" <Matthew.Salter1@btinternet.com>]

Great idea.  I'd happily do some Japanese-English translation.

Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>
To: <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:11 PM
Subject: Web Magazine "SUMO"


> 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