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1. For the first time there is no Japanese yokozuna, or grand champion, the current one being the Mongolian, Asashoryu.
2. The Japan Sumo Association suspended Asashoryu –– the first time the country‘s yokozuna , or top sumo, has received that punishment.
3. Yokozuna hold an almost god–like status in a sport that dates back 2,000 years and remains imbued with Shinto religious overtones.
4. But foreigners first threatened to dominate the sport in 1''3, when Chad Rowan, also Hawaiian, became the first foreign yokozuna.
5. Asashoryu, the current sole ‘yokozuna‘, is Mongolian, and the most popular wrestler on the circuit, the handsome and relatively svelte Kotooshu, hails from Bulgaria.