Sumo: Former ozeki Konishiki undergoes kidney transplant

Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, 60, the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the second-highest rank of ozeki, attends a press conference at a hospital in Kamakura near Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2024, as he reveals that he had a kidney failure and received an organ transplanted from his wife.

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