[sumo] Los Angeles Tour

[Doreen Simmons]

The difference is not in whether it is overseas but in whether it is 
supported by the Government of Japan in some way (in which case it is a 
koen) or if it is simply a commercial undertaking (in which case it is 
a jungyo). HTH.

Doreen


On 2008/02/10, at 9:45, Jim Bitgood wrote:

> Unable to avoid being the old editor/proofreader, I noticed the kanji 
> on the website is the word "jungyou" rather than "koen."
> One is a provincial tour, the other is a foreign tour. Maybe Los 
> Angeles is a province of Japan :-)
> It's an addiction, I can't help. I really go crazy watching the 
> crawler at the bottom of the screen on CNN.
>    Jim
>         "Chitose-Taikai"
>
Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp