[sumo] No New Recruits

[Pierre Wohlleben]

> The following is from Japan Today
> (http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/411071):
> ...
> The JSA has had recruiting problems since the popularity of sumo began 
> to decline in the late 1990s and the number of applicants has not 
> reached 100 a year the last eight years, while foreign wrestlers have 
> grown in numbers and steadily made their marks.

The writer should have read the Japanese articles he's clearly cribbing from a little more closely; the number of applicants *ín Haru basho* hasn't reached 100 in eight years, not the total number for a year. There were 113 recruits just two years ago, and 131 the year before. (108 and 121 if excluding foreigners.)

Asashosakari