Welcome back to Sumo Drop!

Film director and film critic Matthew Stogdon is back with filmmaker, writer and podcaster Emma-Jane Corsan & artist and writer Mark Fox to cover the first week of Sumo Wrestling's July tournament: the Nagoya Basho.

This week's episode is particularly chocker as we not only talk about the latest sumo news, promotions and retirements, our thoughts on the May basho, and our picks for the July basho.. we also have an in-depth conversation about Matt and Emma-Jane's trip to Japan, where they watched some sumo live in Tokyo!

This podcast is designed for both veteran supporters or anyone curious, looking to get into Japan's national sport. For an introduction to the sport, please check out our guide to sumo: https://soundcloud.com/bbgwpod/sumo-drop-guide-to-sumo, additionally, Matt and Em appeared on the Fandomentals podcast covering all the basics, so be sure to tune into that: https://linktr.ee/FandomentalsPodcast

So chuck some salt in the air and step into the ring, it's time for Sumo Drop!

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