Wrestler turning reporter

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo wrestler Masumeidai smiles at the Chiganoura stable in Tokyo's Taito Ward on March 1, 2011. The 26-year-old, whose real name is Shuichi Tanaka, will quit the ring in a ceremony March 5 and become a reporter at a regional daily in April. He was the third wrestler to enter the sumo world from a state university.

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