Tachiyama, the greatest champion wrestler Japan has ever produced, is reported to intend to retire next May and the news has naturally caused a great surprise among wrestling fans in Tokyo. Tachiyama has been an invincible fighter at the Kokugikan amphitheatre for the past fifteen years and it will probably be a long time before there appears a wrestler capable of filing his place. Count Itagaki is a great supporter of Tachiyama. The cause of Tachiyama's retirement is said to be neuralgia.