Solo episode this week but we have some grumbles about injuries to Onosato, Fujinokawa, and Nishikifuji as well as Chiyomaru's new life post retirement and a couple new recruits (Christopher Lee Bill and Nicolas Tarasenko). Then we switch gears to talk about places you can look if you want to start following sumo news yourself and digress a bit to talk about One Championship's current struggles and how the system Hakkaku and the JSA maintain keep them resilient against similar pressures.

0:00 Intro

0:24 News (Injuries, Chiyomaru, and Debutants)

13:48 How Japanese Papers Cover Sumo

25:37 How the JSA keeps Sumo resilient where other combat sports suffer

31:50 Outro

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