Japan Times: JSA announces tour to S. Korea

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

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JSA announces tour to S. Korea

The Japan Sumo Association is to make a groundbreaking tour to South Korea 
in June next year, sumo officials said Tuesday. A two-day exhibition is 
penciled in for Seoul. Sumo officials met at a JSA executive board of 
directors meeting to agree on details of the tour and are set to make an 
announcement after signing a contract.

The overseas visit will be sumo's 11th and first since the tour to Canada in 
1998. It will also be the first tour in Asia since a visit to China in 1973.

The first overseas tour was in the former Soviet Union in 1965.

Sumo is broadcast on television via satellite in South Korea. Kasugao, a 
25-year-old from Seoul in the juryo division, is the first South Korean to 
fight in sumo's top classes.

The Japan Times: Dec. 11, 2002






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