[sumo] Mongolia Tour?

[Sumobaba]

It also occurs me that one of the months contemplated is June of next year.
Isn't that when the LA Koen was thought to be?? 

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-----Original Message-----
From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf
Of Doreen Simmons
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [sumo] Mongolia Tour?

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

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