[sumo] Mongolia Tour?

[Doreen Simmons]

On 2007/07/04, at 6:35, Sumobaba wrote:

> Maybe.....odd timing for the "exploration", though, with the basho 
> starting
> Sunday
>
> This from the Kyodo News:
>
> ◆Sumo: JSA plans 1st training tour of Mongolia
> 	
> TOKYO, July 3 KYODO
>      The Japan Sumo Association is working on a plan to hold an 
> exhibition
> training tour of Mongolia for the first time, possibly in June or 
> August
> next year, sources familiar with the move said Tuesday.
>      Sumo elder Takekuma, a senior official in the association's 
> training
> tour department, will head a group of JSA officials making a 
> fact-finding
> trip to Mongolia from Thursday, they said.
>

So long as they're back by Sunday, no problem; sumo seems to have lost 
some popularity in Mongolia lately, and a visit to try to stir things 
up may give it a push at just the right time.


Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp