Re: Sentoryu etc.

[Richard Webb <webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu>]

Yugo Yodogawa writes:
> 
> Of course Sentoryu is not quite yet a rikishi, but at any rate, according to

He's a rikishi or sumotori, but not a sekitori.

> 
> Has anyone heard Sentoryu speak?  Does he speak Japanese?  I'm assuming he's
> an American citizen, but does anyone know for sure?
> -yugo
> 
I haven't heard him speak, but according to the article in Sumo
World, he has been a very slow learner of the Japanese language.
This seems incredible to me since his mother was/is a Japanese
citizen and he lived the first seven years of his life in Japan.

Richard Webb
webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu

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