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Match-fixing mayhem
Chris Gould Who allegedly fixes matches? And at what cost?

Match-fixing questionnaire
Chris Gould Read the FIRST European-language translation of the JSA's match-fixing questionnaire

Is match-fixing new?
Chris Gould A historical look at match-fixing developments in sumo

Hatsu Basho Review
Chris Gould Retrospective questions need to be asked about some of January's matches!

Ones To Watch
Alexander Herrmann Do the alleged match-fixers trade bouts with each other?

Spotlight on ...
Chris Gould Olympic Ojisan:Meet sumo's most divisive fan!!

Menko Corner
Ryan Laughton Is there anything about collecting Ryan doesn't know?

My first day at sumo
Eric Draven New SFM writer Eric Draven talks about a first-time fan's impressions

A fan's perpective
Ayaka Matsuda New SFM writer Ayaka writes from her own fan's perspective

Morph Corner
Olivia Nagioff Can Olivia possibly relate morphs to match-fixing?

Photo Bonanza
Chris Gould Some of the last shots of wrestlers before they were implicated in the scandal

Readers' Letters
SFM helps the fans again

Cartoons
Coming soon A brand new comedy cartoon strip: Grocer's Tales

Yaocho Special Issue This issue focuses on the recent match-fixing scandal - Match-fixing mayhem examines how the sorry tale emerged, Is match-fixing new? looks at historic match-fixing claims and Match-fixing questionnaire reproduces the questionnaire issued to rikishi as part of the Sumo Association's investigation.
Morph Corner Olivia Nagioff Scandals great and small See more...
Ones to Watch Alexander Herrmann Well, this column could actually read "Ones To Watch � On Their Way Out Soon?" Of course, we � no, everyone � is talking about the yaocho scandal that has hit the Ozumo world recently. Bouts have obviously been thrown, and bout throwers in the second division have been careless enough to deliver proofs of their doings. Read more...
Spotlight on ... Chris Gould In the first of a new series placing different aspects of sumo under the spotlight, we focus on Olympic Ojisan, an eccentric elderly fan who likes to be in front of the camera. Read more...

Menko corner Ryan Laughton 1965 to 1973 was a rough time to be a trading card collector in Japan because production was almost zero. Menko cards had made a valiant production run from the 1930s until 1964 where millions of cards were mass produced with thousands of different themes. Then in almost a blink of an eye menko production stopped in 1964 ... Read more...

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Lynn Matsuoka

Asanowaka was a classic looking figure in sumo, and briefly carried the sword during Akebono's dohyo-iri. He was incredibly funny and would say some things other rikishi wouldn't dare say. He was, of course, famous for his froglike shikiri for which the Kyokai kept reprimanding him, the crowd loved it! This ink jet print, ed. 100, 9.5 x 11 inches is signed and numbered by the artist, available for $550. from the studio. Please contact artist@aloha.net

Yaocho Special Issue

This issue focuses on the recent match-fixing scandal - Match-fixing mayhem examines how the sorry tale emerged, Is match-fixing new? looks at historic match-fixing claims and Match-fixing questionnaire reproduces the questionnaire issued to rikishi as part of the Sumo Association's investigation.

Morph Corner

Olivia Nagioff

Scandals great and smallSee more...

Ones to Watch

Alexander Herrmann

Spotlight on ...

Chris Gould

In the first of a new series placing different aspects of sumo under the spotlight, we focus on Olympic Ojisan, an eccentric elderly fan who likes to be in front of the camera.Read more...

Menko corner

Ryan Laughton

Scandals great and small
See more...

In the first of a new series placing different aspects of sumo under the spotlight, we focus on Olympic Ojisan, an eccentric elderly fan who likes to be in front of the camera.
Read more...