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Japanese top spins for record length of time

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The high-tech top designed and built by Inosuke Mori, a 69-year-old retired professor, breaks a world record Oct. 24, spinning nonstop for 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds. The time is 16 minutes, 7 seconds longer than the current record listed in the Guinness Book. The top, which weighs 13 kg and measures 90 cm high and 90 cm in diameter, is substantially smaller and lighter than the top that produced the previous record: 2 meters high and 360 kg in weight.

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Domei News Agency's 2nd president Furuno

Undated file photo shows Inosuke Furuno, the second president of Japan's Domei News Agency. Established in 1936, the news agency was disbanded after World War II and split into Kyodo News and Jiji Press in 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Domei News Agency's 2nd president Furuno

File photo taken Dec. 27, 1959, shows Inosuke Furuno, the second president of Japan's Domei News Agency, the predecessor to Kyodo News and Jiji Press. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo referee Shikimori Inosuke

Sumo's top-ranked referee Shikimori Inosuke, seen in this file photo taken Jan. 13, 2018, will resign over a sexual harassment scandal, the sport's governing body said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo elder Miyagino

Sumo elder Miyagino meets with reporters at his Miyagino stable in Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2018, following a sexual harassment revelation involving Shikimori Inosuke, a referee who belongs to the stable. The Japan Sumo Association is to hold an extraordinary session of its board of directors to discuss punishment for the top-ranked referee. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo referee Shikimori Inosuke

Undated file photo shows sumo's top-ranked referee Shikimori Inosuke. The Japan Sumo Association is to hold an extraordinary session of its board of directors in January 2018 to discuss punishment for Shikimori following a sexual harassment revelation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese top spins for record length of time

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The high-tech top designed and built by Inosuke Mori, a 69-year-old retired professor, breaks a world record Oct. 24, spinning nonstop for 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds. The time is 16 minutes, 7 seconds longer than the current record listed in the Guinness Book. The top, which weighs 13 kg and measures 90 cm high and 90 cm in diameter, is substantially smaller and lighter than the top that produced the previous record: 2 meters high and 360 kg in weight.