Re: [sumo] Yokozuna-kai

[Stephen <stephen@loxinfo.co.th>]

Fluff.
In the navel.
Thankyou Moti...I DO TRULY value ALL your postings, and keep them coming,
but this one made me squirm!...it's all (as I see it...yes, maybe just me)
part of a downslide...a Yokozuna Association?...!!...is Chad in it?...if so
I will not be so cynical.
Boltono.


on 4/14/04 2:54 PM, Moti at sumo@dichne.com wrote:

> I'll need some help from other members with some stuff here..
> 
> On April 21st, there will be a meeting of the Yokozuna-kai, the Yokozuna
> Association. (I personally was unaware of such an Association, so if
> anyone knows more about it, please enlighten us..).  The Association ,
> apparently, is made up of ex-Yokozunas. What will be different this time
> is that three ex-Yokozunas who keft the Kakkai (at least two of them
> with a lot of ill-feeling) will be joining the meeting for the first
> time: Wakanohana, Wajima and Futahaguro. Also attending for the first
> time will be a YDC (Yokozuna Deliberation Council) member, and a member
> of the  Administration Inquiry Commission (éçåèä, -can anyone
> elaborate?).
> Taihou Oyakata, who is the head of the Yokozuna-kai, decided to invite
> all these people so they could get together and talk about  mutual
> interests. Lately, there are voices inside the YDC calling for more
> interaction between its members, some who have never actually had any
> real conversation with any Yokozuna , and former Yokozuna with vast
> experience.
> These "informal talks", they say, may give them a new perspective when
> they are called upon to decide who is worthy of being promoted to that
> exalted rank. "This is a very good step for the development of the Sumo
> world", said Mr. Ishibashi, chairman of the YDC.
> The presence of the three more outspoken ex-Yokozuna promises to bring
> about a wide range of interesting ideas making for an interesting
> Yokozuna-kai meeting, say the papers.


Fluff.
In the navel.
Thankyou Moti...I DO TRULY value ALL your postings and keep them coming,
but this one made me squirm!...it's all (as I see it...yes, just me) part of
a downslide...a Yokozuna Association?...!!...is Chad in it?...if so I will
not be so cynical.
Boltono.


[EndPost by Stephen <stephen@loxinfo.co.th>]