Kawika's Kaleidoscope

Happy New Year!!   Happy Year of the Dog, ‘bow wow’, or in Japanese, ‘won won’.   It would be nice to put behind us the “dog’s breakfast”,...

All the rikishi have traveled south, to Kyushu, to participate in the last basho of this year in Fukuoka.   It is the last chapter/tourney...

The leaves are falling on the ground, and sumo is returning to Tokyo for the Aki Basho.   In addition to the tournament returning to Tokyo...

Ending the year of the Monkey, we’ve got a handful of rikishi stepping out from behind the curtain.   This is a bumper crop of young men...

With the Nagoya Basho in our rear mirror, we have the Aki basho right around the corner.  Before we make that turn, we should take a look ...

The heat of the summer and the Nagoya basho go hand in hand.  With the summer heat, there will be 5 rikishi stepping out in front of the c...

NAKAMA, Japan >> Nearly  three years later , Fiamalu "Mamu" Penitani still vividly recalls the disbelief in the college re...