Re: [sumo] Sumo and Soccer

[ShiroiKuma <ShiroiKuma@ShiroiKuma.com>]

> At 0:25 PM +1200 04.8.10, Howard Gilbert wrote:
>>The China jungyo/koen was a smaller crowd, watching something promoted as a
>>cultural performance as much as a sporting contest. Also, there was not
>>really a sense of nationalism that went along with it, as the whole thing is
>>nationalised as a 'Japanese' event (even though there are Mongolians,

Well, I'm currently considering moving to China after a new job, and one of the things that are on my mind is I'd like to keep on doing amateur sumou.

But there is no amateur sumou in China, so I was thinking I'd like to give it a start over there, just like happened here in Czech. But one of the big reasons that I've been told that amateur sumou has not developed there was because the Chinese view it as distinctly Japanese and there's still deep anti-Japanese feelings because of Japan's invasion of China and so.

That's what I was thinking when I was watching this soccer match and the wave of anti-Japan feelings.

Maybe starting sumou in China ain't gonna be that easy?

Later,

ShiroiKuma

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