Japan's sumo wrestlers can now be shorter and skinnier
Sport ditches strict physical requirements in bid to reverse lower participation rates
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Sport ditches strict physical requirements in bid to reverse lower participation rates
Monday, January 25, 2021 By Fred Varcoe TOKYO- (PanOrient News) Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has rejected the decision by a Seoul court that holds the Japanese government responsible for the sexual slavery of Korean women during the Japanese colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945. Earlier this month, the Seoul Central District Court rendered a judgment ordering the government of Japan to pay compensation to the plaintiffs, women who say they were forced into sexual slavery. The Foreign Minister says the ruling “denies the application of the principle of stat...