[sumo] “First Foreign Yokozuna was Korean”

[Kuramarujo]

"First Foreign Yokozuna was Korean"
JANUARY 12, 2007 06:35

“The first foreign yokozuna in Japan was not Akebono but Tamanoumi.” 

It was the feature title of the weekly magazine ‘Shukan Shincho’ sold in
Japan on January 10.

[...]

The magazine quoted the Korean non-fiction ‘Yakuza and Yokozuna’ (Cho
Hun-ju) published last year, “Tamanoumi, who died at age 27 in 1971
after becoming a yokozuna in 1970, was Korean,” and “thus the ‘first
foreign yokozuna’ was Tamanoumi.”

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=070000&biid=2007011205728


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