XPost: rec.sport.sumo   
   From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Chadwick Haheo Rowan,born in Hawaii May 8th 1969,   
   naturalized a Japanese citizen as Akebono Taro in 1996,   
   died in Japan April 11th 2024 according to Nikkan Sports   
   and other sources (Japanese language articles came first.   
      
   He was the first non-Japanese to rise to the top rank   
   of sumo wrestling (yokozuna),and a protege of the first   
   non-Japanese to rise to the third-highest rank and a   
   friend and rival of the first to rise to the second-highest.   
      
   All three of them had ties to Hawaii but nowadays the top   
   non-Japanese in sumo are almost all Mongolian.   
      
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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