<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Great news about the possibility of a return engagement at the Royal Albert Hall London. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wonder if the current Rijichio, Hakkaku Oyakata, is keen as he was the one who made the farewell speech from the dohyo at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991 when he was Yokozuna Hokutoumi, saying, “Thank you very much. See you again.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He must have practised very hard to perfect this as he was always eager to say it when I visited his heya with foreign guests, farewelling them with a big smile and his special English phrase.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Dec 2021, at 10:44, Inside Sport: Japan <<a href="mailto:insidesportjapan@gmail.com" class="">insidesportjapan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03);" class="">Still technically in the negotiating stage but it seems (Covid etc permitting) that the Japan Sumo Association will return to the Royal Albert Hall in October 2023.</span></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Sumo site list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Sumo@webtrek.com" class="">Sumo@webtrek.com</a><br class="">http://server.webtrek.com/mailman/listinfo/sumo</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>