Sumo Retirees Play for Laughs from Tourists Flooding Back To Japan

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7 July 2023 17:26 WIB

Nadine, a 43-year-old tourist from the U.S., wearing a sumo wrestler costume, tries to spar against former sumo wrestler Towanoyama on the sumo ring before tourists from abroad, at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan June 30, 2023. Ohtori spent his two-decade sumo career struggling for wins so he could to move up the ranks of Japan's traditional sport, but now he is fighting to entertain a different crowd: curious tourists. REUTERS/Issei Kato

7 Juli 2023 00:00 WIB

Nadine, a 43-year-old tourist from the U.S., wearing a sumo wrestler costume, tries to spar against former sumo wrestler Towanoyama on the sumo ring before tourists from abroad, at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan June 30, 2023. His performance venue, Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka, opened in central Tokyo in November 2022, a month after Japan restarted visa-free travel. REUTERS/Issei Kato

7 Juli 2023 00:00 WIB

Former sumo wrestlers Kotoohtori, 40, and Towanoyama, 45, demonstrate a sumo ritual with a Mexican tourist, who is wearing a sumo wrestler costume, on the sumo ring at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan June 30, 2023. The lunch performances are full of laughs, but surgery scars on Ohtori and Jumbo speak to the physical toll of sumo, which recruits teens and leaves many wrestlers with scant employment prospects when they retire in their 30s. REUTERS/Issei Kato

7 Juli 2023 00:00 WIB

7 Juli 2023 00:00 WIB

Former sumo wrestlers Kotoohtori, 40, and Towanoyama, 45, engage in sparring before tourists from abroad, on the sumo ring at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan June 30, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato

7 Juli 2023 00:00 WIB

7 Juli 2023 00:00 WIB