Jul 6, 2021
Olympic organizers have capped the number of spectators allowed into venues for game events, but will offer Japanese students special access under a program that will let hundreds of thousands of children see the world’s best athletes compete.
Tickets are cheap and COVID-19 countermeasures are in place. Many schools, however, have already pulled out, while others are still on the fence, awaiting more information.
Close to 1.3 million tickets were booked for the schools program last year. But in areas around Tokyo that are hosting several Olympic events, like Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, more than half of the tickets for the program have been canceled.
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The number of stables in sumo continuously ebbs and flows.
Keeping track of, and deciphering the motives behind, the endless elder stock-related openings, closings and mergers, is akin to following the shifting allegiances in the TV series “Game of Thrones.”
Some
heya of course, like Dewanoumi and Takasago, have been in operation uninterrupted since the 1800s, but many others are either newer incarnations of previously shuttered stables, or recent additions to the list.
Such constant but unpredictable movement can result in a 24-year-old
ozeki (Takakeisho) already being on his fourth different stable location (and third heya name) while a 36-year-old veteran (Tamawashi) remains in the same stable and building he entered when turning pro in 2004.