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Re: MemoryTest

> From: Tad_Hosoi@Douglas.BC.CA
>
> >While surfing through the channels tonight I happened upon James Bond
> >"You Only Live Twice" and caught the sumo sequence.
> >
> >Question:  Who were the two rikishi?  or were they actors?
> >
> >I just KNOW one of you has the answer.  Thanks.   DIANA
> 
> They were Kotozakura and Fujinishiki.  James Bond was referred to the
> Kuramae Kokugikan to see matches and to meet his counterpart there by
> Sadanoyama, then a Yokozuna, the current rijicho of the Sumo Kyokai.
> 
> Tad Hosoi

Now I'm wondering, was that bout a real one, or staged specifically for
the movie?  And if it was real, from what day of what basho was it?
-yugo