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Ex-wrestler Inoki to run in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese wrestling star Antonio Inoki holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on June 5, 2013, to formally announce that he will run in the upcoming upper house election for the Japan Restoration Party.

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Ex-wrestler Inoki to run in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese wrestling star Antonio Inoki (R) and Shintaro Ishihara, co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, hold a press conference in Tokyo on June 5, 2013. Inoki, 70, formally announced that he will run in the upcoming upper house election for the opposition party, also led by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.

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Ex-wrestler Inoki to run in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese wrestling star Antonio Inoki (R) and Shintaro Ishihara, co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, let out a morale-boosting shout during a press conference in Tokyo on June 5, 2013. Inoki, 70, formally announced that he will run in the upcoming upper house election for the opposition party, also led by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.

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Ex-wrestler Inoki to run in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese wrestling star Antonio Inoki (R) and Shintaro Ishihara, co-head of the Japan Restoration Party, hold a press conference in Tokyo on June 5, 2013. Inoki, 70, formally announced that he will run in the upcoming upper house election for the opposition party, also led by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto.

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Ex-wrestler Inoki to run in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese wrestling star Antonio Inoki lets out a morale-boosting shout in front of the Diet in Tokyo on June 5, 2013. Inoki, 70, formally announced later that day that he will run in the upcoming upper house election for the Japan Restoration Party.

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Court nullifies sumo body's dismissal of ex-wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Former sumo wrestler Sokokurai (front) is surrounded by fans in front of the Tokyo District Court on March 25, 2013, after the court ruled earlier in the day that the Japan Sumo Association's dismissal of Sokokurai of the top-tier makuuchi division in 2011 over match fixing was invalid. The 29-year-old Chinese-born former maegashira, whose real name is Enhetubuxin, had demanded to be reinstated as a wrestler after he was sacked by the JSA in April 2011 for refusing to retire over his alleged involvement in the match-fixing scandal.

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Ex-wrestler Ueda dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2002 shows former Japanese wrestler Umanosuke Ueda. Ueda died at a hospital in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. He was 71.

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Ex-wrestler Onita to give up upper house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Onita, a House of Councillors member of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June 23 and says he will not run in the July upper house election. A former wrestler, Onita won the Diet seat in 2001 in the proportional representation bloc.

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Ex-wrestler Onita to give up upper house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Onita, a House of Councillors member of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June 23 and says he will not run in the July upper house election. A former wrestler, Onita won the Diet seat in 2001 in the proportional representation bloc. (Kyodo)

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Ex-wrestler Ueda dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2002 shows former Japanese wrestler Umanosuke Ueda. Ueda died at a hospital in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. He was 71. (Kyodo)