Los Angeles Times, Sunday 23rd May 1954 (Part vi
page 10)
CROWD AT KUSHIRO
Crowd At Kushiro, Japan, watches sumo wrestlers perform.
Sumo is the nation's top-ranking sport. During World War II Emperor Hirohito
decreed sumo wrestlers exempt from military service because of big public
interest in that sport. (Times photo by Roland R. Laursec)
