{"id":72520,"date":"2015-09-28T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?p=67313"},"modified":"2016-04-01T00:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:48:58","slug":"sumo-wrestling-at-hakata-station-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/sumo-wrestling-at-hakata-station-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumo Wrestling at Hakata Station, Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, three Brits, two Americans and a Canadian gathered in front of Hakata Station to practice their <em>sumo<\/em> techniques for Nippon Now\u2019s Hakata Basho! First up were Adeline (fitness instructor, New York) and Sam (student, Bristol). Then Fukuoka Now co-workers Nick (publisher) and Jess (editor). Comedy Fukuoka\u2019s Bobby and Ollie acted as referee and commentator respectively, before taking to the mat for their own showdown. Onlookers gawked and laughed as the padded wrestlers threw themselves at each other, safe in their squishy <em>sumo<\/em> suits. See <em>sumo<\/em> suit wrestling for yourself at <a href=\"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nippon-now-culture-day-event-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nippon Now<\/a> on Nov. 3 (Tue., Hol.), or &#8211; even better &#8211; join the Basho yourself by applying <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/fukuoka-now.com\/forms\/d\/1mi28Z7r-kYSb6lsPRk4z7plBNQ4HB3Wv5xOkaruGU08\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Lot\u2019s more entertainment on the day too, for example,  <em>koto<\/em>, <em>taiko<\/em>, and a <em>kimono<\/em> photo salon &#8211; details: <a href=\"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nippon-now-culture-day-event-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nippon-now-culture-day-event-2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-001-e1446000810267.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 001\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-002-e1446000821752.jpg?resize=640%2C960\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 002\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-003-e1446000831656.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 003\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67317\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-004-e1446000843771.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 004\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67318\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-005-e1446000854971.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 005\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67319\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-006-e1446000880911.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 006\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-007-e1446000891281.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"sumo nn oct 2015 007\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67321\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, three Brits, two Americans and a Canadian gathered in front of Hakata Station to practice their sumo techniques for Nippon Now\u2019s Hakata Basho! First up were Adeline (fitness instructor, New York) and Sam (student, Bristol). Then Fukuoka Now co-workers Nick (publisher) and Jess (editor). Comedy Fukuoka\u2019s Bobby and Ollie acted as referee and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":67315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"67313","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","location-hakata","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sumo-nn-oct-2015-001-e1446000810267.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84344,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72520\/revisions\/84344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}