[sumo] Where will they fight in Osaka

[Keri Sibley]

IMHO, they should move the Nagoya Basho to March and
hold the July Basho in Sapporo or Aomori!

Just my 2 cents/yen

Hinerikeri

--- Sumocypher at aol.com wrote:

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> The Yomiuri reports that Osaka government will close
> the  gym where the basho 
> take place each year. I wonder what they have in
> mind  and whether it will be 
> in time for next year's Osaka  tournament.
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_http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080415TDY02201.htm_
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(http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080415TDY02201.htm)
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> Sumo world puzzled by plan to close Osaka Pref. 
> gymnasium
> The Yomiuri Shimbun 
> The Sumo world is puzzled by a financial reform plan
> championed by a  project 
> team of Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto to demolish a
> gymnasium in the  city that 
> hosts spring sumo tournaments.  
> Prefectural government officials went to Tokyo on
> Monday to explain the  
> plan, which is aimed at reducing the prefectural
> government's expenses, to  the 
> Japan Sumo Association.  
> The Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Naniwa Ward,
> Osaka, opened in 1952  to 
> host sumo tournaments and other sporting events. The
> current building  was 
> constructed in 1987. The gymnasium's floor panels
> are sturdy enough to  support its 
> nearly 30-ton dohyo ring, and its storage rooms are
> used as  dressing rooms 
> for the wrestlers.  
> The gymnasium is one of only a few profitable
> prefectural facilities.  Its 
> total revenue in fiscal 2006 was 260 million yen,
> about 80 million yen  of which 
> was related to sumo.  
> In reviewing the necessity of all prefectural
> facilities, the project  team 
> suggested that the prefectural government demolish
> the gymnasium and  sell the 
> vacant lot. The team estimates the former site can
> be sold for  more than 10 
> billion yen, as it is located in the Minami
> entertainment  district.  
> However, the plan has drawn opposition from the sumo
> world because a  new 
> venue for the spring sumo tournaments has to be
> found.  
> The Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, which was
> built in 1996, is  regarded 
> as the most likely venue to host the sumo
> tournaments.  
> Hashimoto plans to announce his decision on whether
> the prefectural  
> government will demolish the prefectural gymnasium
> by the end of June.  "We're 
> bewildered because [the plan] came out suddenly.
> We'd like to  consider how to 
> respond," a spokesman for the association said.  
> (Apr. 15, 2008)
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