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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I only saw him as Kokonoe Oyakata in person. But he was one of my favorites when I got hooked on Sumo while in the Army in Japan from 1989 - 1992.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Torideyama</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, March 19, 2021, 09:00:02 PM CDT, R. Brown <brownro214@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpba796570yiv1800566911"><div><div dir="ltr">Not surprised. How many of the respondents actually saw Chiyonofuji or Taiho in action? Taiho retired 50 years ago and the Wolf 30 years ago, but they are 2 and 3 in basho victories. Note all three were Japanese. Could a foreigner ever be considered the "favorite" in Japan? Who is the favorite baseball player (Ichiro of course), the favorite pop band (probably not a K-pop band). Not hating on anyone. I lived in Japan for a couple of years and they are wonderful people, but they are also an insular and homogeneous population.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Kodaiyama</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpba796570yiv1800566911yqt5443798806" id="ydpba796570yiv1800566911yqt75484"><div class="ydpba796570yiv1800566911gmail_quote"><div class="ydpba796570yiv1800566911gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:18 AM Jeffrey Anderson <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydpba796570yiv1800566911gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><a shape="rect" href="https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007234995" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0007234995</a><br clear="none">
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