Re: SUMO: new service at Kokugikan

["Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>]

I posted this yesterday, it came through on the d-list but not the main one, 
so just reposting.

rowan


From: "Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: SUMO: new service at Kokugikan
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Although this might appear to be a new idea, it is far from such. In the
Japan Times on May 13th 1941 there was the following article. I don't know 
when it was stopped however. Maybe after the Kokugikan was destroyed/taken 
over by the foreign troups a few years later. Also the politically incorrect 
terminology was as per the article.

Article

In the pandemonium that reigns throughout the Kokugikan arena immediately 
after every important bout, it is an impossibility to hear the decision and 
other important details of the results, especially when one is seated way up 
in "nigger heaven". Hence, for the use of these customers, special 
audiphones have been installed at a minimum charge of 30 sen per day.

picture http://www.juryo.com/newspaper/19410513.jpg



From: Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>
>Subject: SUMO: new service at Kokugikan
>Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 02:31:20 -0700
>
>Sumo Kyokai announced that it will start a new FM radio service at
>Kokugikan and broadcast NHK Satellite Sumo coverage in two language
>(Japanese and English), along with its own contents such as Sumo Shop
>announcement/advertisement and Sumo Jinku songs.
>
>Sumo Kyokai also announced the new discount ticket prices for visiting
>school kids groups for field trip studies. The discount prices are 2000 yen 
>for Chair Seat B (4900 yen seat) and 1500 yen for Chair Seat C (3600 yen 
>seat).



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