Sumo is a combat sport. The sumo wrestlers are very big and ware uniform which is called “Mawashi” and is like T-backed underwear. They wear only that so it looks like a little bit strange. There is a ranking system which represents who is the strongest wrestler and this would change each tournament. The top wrestler is called “Yokozuna.” Sumo is popular from old people, not that much popular for young people but some famous and strong wrestlers such as Yokozuna are known by all Japanese and also sumo is very popular in Mongolia because now, two Yokozuna are from Mongolia. The two Yokozuna are hero in Mongolia.
One of the Yokozuna, Asashouryu, 29 year-old, announced retirement from sumo world two days ago. This is a big news in Japan but in Mongolia, this news is bigger than in Japan. He was very strong but it is said that he did not have a good or enough behavior as a Yokozuna or an athlete. He had had a lot of bad news such as an act of violence that is why he had to announce retirement. However, on the Mongolian media mentions that Japanese people have been jealousy about Mongolian wrestler so Japanese people drove retirement.
This is completely different information. People in Mongolia may have bad image about Japanese sumo world and Japanese because all top news in Mongolia mentions about this news and say “The Yokozuna is poor. Japanes sumo world is terrible.” I do not know which information is correct but I think that sumo has a lot of strict traditional rules so people may misunderstand about what Japanese media criticize the Yokozuna. I hope that the ex-Yokozuna, Asashouryu will mentions the truth in Japan and in Mongolia.
