Kaihō Ryōji (born April 17, 1973 as Ryōji Kumagaya ) is a former sumo wrestler from Aomori , Japan . His highest rank was komusubi . An amateur champion at Nihon University , he entered professional sumo in 1996. He was one of the lightest sekitori wrestlers in recent years. He won two special prizes for Technique. He retired from active competition in 2010 and became a coach, but in April 2011 he was asked to resign from the Japan Sumo Association after being found guilty of match-fixing .
18-704: Kaihō was born in Fukaura , a town in the Nishitsugaru District of Aomori Prefecture. He was an amateur sumo champion at Nihon University , and won the middleweight world title for Japan in the 2nd World Sumo Championships held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan . He entered professional sumo in January 1996 at the age of 22, joining Hakkaku stable . Because of his amateur achievements, he was given makushita tsukedashi status and allowed to enter at
36-464: A kaatsu instructor and opened his own gym in Tokyo, where he trained some wrestlers active in professional sumo such as Hidenoumi . In July 2015 he took part in a mixed martial arts match held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan , losing by a technical knock out. As of 2018 he was a coach at Nihon University sumo club. Kaihō was below average size for a rikishi and relied on his technical ability, employing
54-525: A bout against Iwakiyama on the 14th day. He was forced to sit out the final day and the whole of the following tournament in September, resulting in demotion to the second division in November 2005. He remained there until July 2007, when, due to the unusually large number of retirements and demotions from the top division, a 9-6 score at jūryō 5 was good enough to return him to makuuchi . He produced
72-411: A similar sumo style to Mainoumi . He won two special prizes for Technique. His favourite grip on his opponent's mawashi was hidari-yotsu , a right arm outside, left hand inside grip. He specialised in throws, and regularly used his inside grip to win by shitatenage , or underarm throw. He is also fond of uchigake , the inside leg trip. He was known for often employing henka , or sidestepping at
90-529: A strong 10-5 record in his first tournament back in the top division, and although he missed out on another special prize he was promoted up the rankings to maegashira 6. He could only win four bouts at that rank in September 2007 and after another losing score of 6-9 in November, he fell to maegashira 16, the lowest rank in the top division. An 8-7 record in the January 2008 tournament preserved his top division status, but in March he could manage only four wins and
108-453: Is 7.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1604 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.2 °C, and lowest in January, at around 0.0 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Fukaura peaked at around the year 1960 and has decreased by more than half over the past 60 years. It is now considerably less than it
126-469: Is a town located in Aomori Prefecture , Japan . As of 31 January 2023 , the town had an estimated population of 7,268 in 3553 households, and a population density of 15 persons per km . The total area of the town is 488.85 km (188.75 sq mi). Fukaura is in Nishitsugaru District, Aomori , and occupies the far southwestern coastline of Aomori Prefecture, facing
144-718: Is also a small tourism industry centered on the Shirakami Sanchi UNESCO World Heritage area, particularly the Juniko Lakes on its periphery. Fukaura has three public elementary schools and two public junior high schools operated by the town government and one public high school operated by the Aomori Prefectural Board of Education. [REDACTED] East Japan Railway Company (JR East) - Gonō Line Hidenoumi Takuya Too Many Requests If you report this error to
162-583: The tachi-ai or initial charge, and was adept at using inashi , or ducking and moving diagonally back from the opponent. He had a higher than average number of wins by okuri-dashi , or push out from behind, as a result. Sanshō key: F =Fighting spirit; O =Outstanding performance; T =Technique Also shown: ★ = Kinboshi ; P = Playoff (s) Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Fukaura, Aomori Fukaura ( 深浦町 , Fukaura-machi )
180-523: The toshiyori name Tanigawa- oyakata . However, in April 2011 he was told to resign from the Sumo Association after an investigation into alleged bout-rigging prompted by the discovery by police of text messages on the mobile phone of former wrestler Kasuganishiki , which mentioned Kaihō and a number of other wrestlers as being involved in throwing matches. He was given an envelope containing
198-910: The Sea of Japan . The southwestern corner of the town is located within the borders of the Shirakami-Sanchi , a UNESCO World Heritage Site , and some coastal areas of the town are within the Tsugaru Quasi-National Park . The islets of Kyūroku-jima in the Sea of Japan are located within the boundaries of the town, giving it the westernmost point of Aomori Prefecture. The town has a hot humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfa ) bordering on humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) characterized by warm short summers and long cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Fukaura
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#1732783183643216-462: The bottom of the third highest makushita division. He won the makushita championship in his very first tournament with a perfect 7-0 record, defeating Kyokutenhō in a playoff - the only yūshō of his career. He was promoted to the second highest jūryō division in May 1997. At this point he switched from fighting under his family name of Kumagaya to the shikona of Kaihō, which was taken from
234-650: The message, "You intentionally had sumo bouts lacking fighting spirit with Kasuganishiki on the 13th day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in 2010 and the seventh day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in 2010." Kaihō responded angrily to the decision of the fact-finding panel, saying "There is no evidence to incriminate me because I didn't do it. They only trust what Kasuganishiki says, and they wouldn't listen to me." Following his retirement Kaiho became certified as
252-500: The name of his father's boat, Kaihō-maru (Kai means "ocean" or "sea" in Japanese). He reached the top makuuchi division in May 1998, the first wrestler from his stable to do so, and remained a rank and file maegashira for the next three years. In the September 2001 tournament he defeated yokozuna Musashimaru , earning his first kinboshi and scored ten wins. He was rewarded with his first sanshō or special prize and
270-578: The neighboring village of Iwasaki . Fukaura has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town legislature of 12 members. Nishitsugaru District contributes one member to the Aomori Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Aomori 3rd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . The economy of Fukaura is heavily dependent on commercial fishing . There
288-581: Was a century ago. The area around Fukaura was controlled by the Tsugaru clan of Hirosaki Domain during the Edo period . It became a village in Nishitsugaru District with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889, and was elevated to town status on April 1, 1926. On July 29, 1955, Fukura annexed the neighboring village of Otose. On March 31, 2005, it was merged with
306-451: Was demoted back to jūryō for the May 2008 tournament, where he remained for the next two years. In May 2010 he scored just 3-12 at the lowest rank of jūryō 14, and he was demoted to the non-salaried makushita division for the first time in 13 years. Kaihō did not take part in the July 2010 tournament and announced his retirement on the eighth day. He became a coach at Hakkaku stable under
324-401: Was promoted to the san'yaku ranks at komusubi for the following tournament. He was however, unable to maintain that rank. He stayed in the top division for the next 44 tournaments with just one brief demotion to jūryō in November 2003, and won his second special prize in March 2005 after a fine 11-4 record. However, just two tournaments later in July 2005 he suffered a fractured ankle in
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