Sumo, or Japanese wrestling, will be included among the required subjects at various schools from about next summer if the movement launched by Yasutaro Fujio, member of the House of Representatives, and other influential personages of military and civilian circles should prove successful.
    Prime movers from the military circle are: Generals Oi, Kawai, S. Hayashi, Hayashi, Kawashima, Nara, Koiso, and Abo, and Lieut.-Generals Tatekawa and Yannagawa.
    Those from the civilian circle are: Yasutaro Fujio, Viscount Ogasawara, Mayor Ichita Kobashi of Tokyo, Kunihiko Goto, and Prince Ichijo.
    The plan will be presented to the Diet session within a few days for approval. Education Minister General Baron Sadao Araki is not unsympathetic toward the movement, it is understood.
    Mr. Fujio is a judo expert. He held the rank of "Rokudan" of the Kodokan Judo association until last February, when he returned the rank to the association.
    Mr. Fujio founded the Matsuura Seifukai, a sumo association at Karatsu, Saga prefecture, his native place, about 10 years ago. He has been urging for the last several years that sumo he made a required subject in the schools.