TY - CHAP
T1 - Gaijin (foreign) sumo wrestlers help Japanese tradition to March on
T2 - A case study of foreigners in a Japanese labor market
AU - Nakajima, Takanobu
AU - Harakawa, Kazuhiro
PY - 2004/1/1
Y1 - 2004/1/1
N2 - The New Year sumo tournament of 2003 came to an end with Mongolian-born Ozeki Asashoryu winning the Makuuchi championship. His splendid record of fourteen wins and only one loss in the tournament assured his becoming a Yokozuna, the highest rank in the world of the Grand Sumo. The brilliant achievement by Asashoryu also underscored a rare event that happened for the first time in sumo history. Believe it or not, except for the Jonidan division, one of the lower rank divisions in sumo, all division champions in this tournament were ‘gaijin sumo wrestlers’.
AB - The New Year sumo tournament of 2003 came to an end with Mongolian-born Ozeki Asashoryu winning the Makuuchi championship. His splendid record of fourteen wins and only one loss in the tournament assured his becoming a Yokozuna, the highest rank in the world of the Grand Sumo. The brilliant achievement by Asashoryu also underscored a rare event that happened for the first time in sumo history. Believe it or not, except for the Jonidan division, one of the lower rank divisions in sumo, all division champions in this tournament were ‘gaijin sumo wrestlers’.
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U2 - 10.1057/9780230524040_7
DO - 10.1057/9780230524040_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85016791215
SN - 9781403941343
SP - 144
EP - 157
BT - Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society: Globalization of Post-Bubble Japan
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -