In this country when a man of average height takes on girth until his weight runs up to 300 pounds or so his friends have grave doubts about his condition and advise him to diet in order to bring back a slim elegance of figure. In Japan the contrary is true. If a man can carry 300 pounds of flesh with any agility he is of the material from which heroes are manufactured, and if he can work up to the 400 or 475 pound notch and becomes a wrestler he is in the running for the championship. Wrestling is to the Japanese what boxing is to us and more. The populace goes crazy over it, and the magnates of the big game handle great sums in the way of gate receipts. - Wide World Magazine