<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Jeff. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Makes me wonder whether there’s any documentation/research for this writer’s opinion. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Carol <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:15 PM, Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com" class="">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class="">(This is a letter to the editor from a reader)</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class="">Gaijingai </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class="">Sumo bravely continued, holding its recent tournament without the roar of the the crowds, but with the sickening sound of head-to-head collisions. Please protect these men from serious brain injuries.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class="">The Japan Sumo Association must adopt a standing <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic" class="">tachi-ai</span> (the initial charge at the start of a bout).</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.9375em;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.1875rem;font-family:utopia-std,Georgia,"Hiragino Mincho Pro","Hiragino Mincho",serif;line-height:1.6875rem" class=""></p><div class="jt_content_ad" id="div-gpt-ad-1499653692894-0" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:auto;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;box-sizing:border-box;float:none;clear:both;text-align:center;padding-left:0px!important;width:414px!important;max-width:414px!important;height:auto!important;max-height:none!important"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/4973089/article_1_0__container__" style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;border:0pt none;padding:0px!important;max-height:none!important;max-width:414px!important;width:414px!important;height:auto!important" class=""></div></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class="">In other sports, all athletes who risk head injury from collisions are either pulled for observation, as in the National Football League in the United States, or the potentially damaging move is prohibited, as in headers in soccer.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; font-family: utopia-std, Georgia, "Hiragino Mincho Pro", "Hiragino Mincho", serif; line-height: 1.6875rem;" class="">Sumo is a serious sport. Let’s be sensible before these <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic" class="">rikishi</span> are knocked senseless.</div><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.9375em;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.1875rem;font-family:utopia-std,Georgia,"Hiragino Mincho Pro","Hiragino Mincho",serif;line-height:1.6875rem" class=""></p><div class="jt_reader" style="margin:1.25em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.625em;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Pluto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;text-transform:uppercase" dir="auto"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:32 PM Carol Tan <<a href="mailto:caroltan@tandynasty.com" class="">caroltan@tandynasty.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alas, I’m locked out of the JapanTimes website for some reason. Jeff, are you able to do a copy/past for this article?<br class="">
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If so, domo arrogate goziamasu!<br class="">
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Carol <br class="">
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> On Mar 28, 2020, at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/27/reader-mail/knock-sense-sumo/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/27/reader-mail/knock-sense-sumo/</a><br class="">
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> Let the debate begin. Who’ s first?<br class="">
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> Gajungai<br class="">
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