Grand champ Hakuho, defending the very first time because July 30 because of injury as well as ailment, opened up the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament with a win onSunday
Hakuho, that had endoscopic surgical treatment on his appropriate knee in August as well as evaluated favorable for the coronavirus in January, resumed his proposal for a 45th profession champion 3 days after transforming 36. The triumph came January’s champ, komusubi Daieisho.
The yokozuna took place the offensive from the dive, driving Daieisho back to the straw. The komusubi attempted to grow his appropriate foot as well as pivot backwards on his left to toss Hakuho out, just to be ruled to have actually marched initially.
With both wrestlers flying out of the ring at virtually the very same time, a testimonial showed up in order, yet none of the courts required one, bringing the very first of 15 days of competitors at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan to a close.
– Kyodo
Mar 15
Grand champ Hakuho, defending the very first time because July 30 because of injury as well as ailment, opened up the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament with a win onSunday (Kyodo)
Mar 15
World No 1 Dustin Johnson validated on Saturday he did not place his name onward for an area on the UNITED STATE group for this summertime’s Tokyo Olympics as well as will certainly rather concentrate on the PGATour(Japan Times)
Mar 14
The Japan Sumo Association claimed Saturday an overall of 28 wrestlers, all from outside the leading 2 departments, will certainly miss out on the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament beginning this weekend break after a set of trainers evaluated favorable for the coronavirus.(Japan Today)
Mar 13
Japan midfielder Yuki Kobayashi has actually asked forgiveness to Qatar authorities for a “misunderstanding”, after he charged an umpire of endangering to eliminate him.(Japan Today)
Mar 13
The Azumazeki secure, sumo’s very first to be opened up by a foreign sumo senior, previous sekiwake Takamiyama, as well as house to the sporting activity’s very first international yokozuna, Akebono, will certainly shut its doors as well as combine with the Hakkaku secure, the Japan Sumo Association revealedFriday (Kyodo)Mar 12
Japanese professional athletes at the Summer Olympics will certainly not be qualified for coronavirus inoculations supplied by China because Japan has actually not accepted the injections, Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa claimed onFriday(Japan Today)
Mar 12
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have actually jailed a previous sumo wrestler over the claimed belongings of cannabis in Toshima Ward, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Mar 11). ( tokyoreporter.com)Mar 10
The Japanese federal government has actually determined to leave out abroad viewers from attending this summertime’s Tokyo Olympics as well as Paralympics, as component of initiatives to stop the spread of the unique coronavirus, authorities with expertise of the issue claimedTuesday(Japan Times)
Mar 06
Japan’s COVID-19 instances are dropping many thanks to, or maybe in spite of, loosened limitations on financial task. But with absolutely no hr coming close to for a choice on the destiny of the Tokyo Olympics, the federal government is taking no opportunities as well as expanded the state of emergency situation in the funding Friday night. (Nikkei)Mar 06
A sign of riches as well as social standing in Japan 40 years earlier, golf endured a deep drop-off in its appeal after the country’s financial bubble ruptured in the very early 1990s. ( dw.com)Mar 03
The Tokyo Olympics arranging board on Tuesday claimed it would certainly select 12 brand-new women participants to raise females’s depiction on the board to 40%.(Nikkei)
Mar 01
Japan’s Kengo Suzuki ended up being the very first jogger from East Asia to run a guys’s marathon in under 2 hrs as well as 5 mins, as he asserted the 76th as well as last Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon onSunday (Japan Times)Mar 01
Tamayo Marukawa, Japan’s brand-new preacher for the Tokyo Olympic as well as Paralympic Games, has actually come under attack for signing up with a war a discerning twin last name system for couples. (Japan Times)Mar 01
Cesario, that won Grade 1 races on 2 continents as well as has the difference of creating 3 stallion boys at stud in Japan, passed away at Northern Farm on Saturday aged 19. ( racingpost.com)Feb 28
Athletes joining this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo can start going into Japan after it raises its emergency situation affirmation order following month, the Nikkei paper reported onFriday(Japan Today)
Feb 25
Japan’s Olympics preacher claimed Wednesday that coronavirus inoculations would certainly not be a requirement for involvement at this summertime’s Olympics as well as Paralympics, in spite of a World Anti-Doping Agency charm that professional athletes be inoculated. (Kyodo)Feb 25
Roughly 1,000 volunteers that were to assist at this summertime’s Tokyo Olympics as well as Paralympics have actually stopped following sexist remarks by previous arranging board head of state Yoshiro Mori, the board claimedWednesday (Kyodok)Feb 24
Travel basically throughout Japan as well as it will not be lengthy prior to you listen to the distinct cacophony of a pachinko parlour sounding out. ( newsonjapan.com)Feb 23
Mongolian- birthed yokozuna Hakuho on Monday mentioned his aggravation at missing out on the January Grand Sumo Tournament after getting the unique coronavirus, while continuing to be hopeful of a remarkable return at the upcoming March satisfy.(Kyodo)
Feb 22
The Japan Sumo Association enforced the 2nd most serious penalty on stablemaster Tokitsukaze on Monday, suggesting he retire for breaching coronavirus procedures when he made nonurgent, inessential trips throughout a basho.(Kyodo)