<div dir="ltr">List members, for your consideration this comment on the article by username DK_109:<div><div class="gmail-Comment__content___H2nSW" style="font-family:FranklinITCProLight,Helvetica-light,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:inherit"><div class="gmail-talk-stream-comment-content gmail-talk-slot-comment-content" style="font-family:inherit"><div class="gmail-talk-plugin-rich-text-text gmail-CommentContent__content___ZGv1q" style="font-family:FranklinITCProLight,HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue Light","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;line-height:26px;color:rgb(42,42,42);padding-bottom:10px"><blockquote style="font-family:inherit;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);padding:10px;margin:20px 0px 20px 10px;border-radius:2px">Kotokantetsu, who like all wrestlers goes by a single professional name</blockquote>This isn't accurate. Lower-ranked wrestlers typically only go by one name, but once you reach the "salaried" ranks (Juryo and Makunouchi) you go by two. Hakuho, for instance (which this article misnames as "Hakuko"), is "Hakuho Sho". Kotokantetsu's highest ranked stablemate is Kotoshoho Yoshinari.<br style="font-family:inherit">There's some fairly notable errors in this article, which tells me it was written by someone who doesn't know sumo very well (getting Hakuho's name wrong is particularly egregious, given that he's basically the Wayne Gretzky of sumo - the greatest and most record-setting wrestler to ever compete) and apparently wasn't looked over by anyone who does. Come on, WaPo, you're better than this.</div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 12:29 PM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-sumo-coronavirus/2021/01/21/fc351ea8-54f2-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-sumo-coronavirus/2021/01/21/fc351ea8-54f2-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html</a><br>
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Excellent story RE: corona virus and sumo. <br>
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