Los Angeles-area Japanese Americans were ordered to assemble for forced removal to concentration camps during World War II.

and folklore in many rural regions of Japan note womens sumo as a way to pray for rain.Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

tournaments were frequent and well-attended.Sumo wrestlers need a combination of strength.Sumo Sundays website also acknowledges that training takes place within the former 100-mile exclusion zone that Japanese Canadians were forbidden to enter during WWII as well as on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam.

nearly 80 years after the wars end.Partially because sumo is not an established martial art in Canada.

To offer a consistent space to practice sumo.

till the muscles of his fat sides stood out in rolls.WASHINGTON —?The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) honored the 2025 NEA National Heritage Fellows.

which sends its recommendations to the NEA chair.My own journey … began in 1942 at the age of 4 when we were put into an incarceration camp in Colorado.

bit and spur maker and silversmith (Lovell.traditional Lakota artist and educator (Omaha.