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Newly promoted yokozuna Kakuryu practices 'dohyo iri' ritual

Newly promoted yokozuna Kakuryu practices 'dohyo iri' ritual

OSAKA, Japan - Newly promoted yokozuna Kakuryu (2nd from R) practices the unryugata style "dohyo iri" ring-entering ritual at the lodgings of his stable, the Izutsu Beya, in Osaka, western Japan, on March 27, 2014. He is accompanied by his ceremony attendants Kagamio (R) and Ikioi (2nd from L), and gyoji Kimura Shonosuke. (Pool photo)

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Newly promoted yokozuna Kakuryu prepares for 'dohyo iri'

Newly promoted yokozuna Kakuryu prepares for 'dohyo iri'

OSAKA, Japan - Newly promoted yokozuna Kakuryu (R) watches fellow sumo wrestlers as they wove a heavy, white rope belt to be donned around his waist during the "dohyo iri" ring-entering ritual, at the lodgings of his stable, the Izutsu Beya, in Osaka, western Japan, on March 27, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Former Tongan sumo wrestler stands before home on main island

Former Tongan sumo wrestler stands before home on main island

Former professional sumo wrestler Tevita Vaiola Falevai stands in front of his home on Tongatapu, the main island of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, as seen in this photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014. The house carries a signboard inscribed with "kanji" Chinese characters on its front wall, which read "Asahiyama Beya," a stable he belonged to when he was in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nakamura stable keeps computers for correspondence course

Nakamura stable keeps computers for correspondence course

TOKYO, Japan - Junior wrestlers shuffle forward along the sumo ring in a training room in Nakamura Beya (stable) in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward on a chilly morning in February. (Kyodo)

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