Japan Times and Advertiser, Monday 6th May 1942 (Morning Edition Page 3)

Pleased With New Sumo Rankings

    Beaming with smiles over the new rankings announced at 8 a.m., Tuesday for the “summer” season of the professional sumo (wrestling) tournament which gets under way May 10 at the Kokugikan bowl at Ryogoku for fifteen days are Ohnomori (left) and Terukuni. Officials of the Japan Sumo Association made one of the most radical decisions in years when they shifted Terukuni, ohzeki (champion) still in his early twenties, from the East to the West camp to fill the gap left by the retirement of Minanogawa, Yokozuna (grand champion). Ohonomori, who belongs to the same stable with Terukuni, is looking at the rankings with big grin because he has been newly promoted into the makunouchi (champion) circle.