The Yokozuna Deliberation Council (Yokozuna shingi iinkai, 横綱審議委員会), sometimes abbreviated as Yokoshin (よこしん), is the advisory body to the Japan Sumo...

establishment of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council (横綱審議委員会, Yokozuna-shingi-iinkai) on 21 April 1950, wrestlers have been promoted to yokozuna by the Japan Sumo...

Boat Yasuko Ikenobō – Chairwoman of NPO Moegi and member of Yokozuna Deliberation Council Seventy-one contestants competed for the title. Ages during...

Association, by being appointed to the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. "Konno and Ikenobo as new members of the Yokoso Council, the first female members since...

fact that a foreign wrestler could become yokozuna. In 1992, a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, Kojima Jo, was quoted in the magazine Bungei...

early 1950s, until it ceased to be a nominating body when the Yokozuna Deliberation Council was created. At the beginning of the reign of shogun Tokugawa...

Tottori in October. Fellow yokozuna Hakuhō was docked a month and a half's pay. The chairman of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council said, "Hakuho and Kakuryu...

day following the tournament, the Yokozuna Deliberation Council unanimously recommended his promotion to yokozuna which was formally announced by the...

Regarding his rivalry with Takerufuji, the president of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, Masayuki Yamauchi, defined it in his review of the tournament...

prize. Regarding his rivalry with Ōnosato, the president of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, Masayuki Yamauchi, defined it in his review of the tournament...

he is also the sixth oldest rikishi to be promoted to yokozuna. The Yokozuna Deliberation Council recommended Terunofuji's promotion on 19 July, and the...

from the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, which indicates that his performance is considered to be below that of yokozuna standard. The council had not previously...

are allowed to participate. Yokozuna Shingi Kai (横綱審議会) or Yokozuna Shingi Iinkai (横綱審議委員会) 'Yokozuna Deliberation Council'. A body formed in 1950 whose...

Retrieved 1 July 2023. Gunning, John (5 September 2018). "Sumo's Yokozuna Deliberation Council plays important role in overseeing sport" – via Japan Times...

Councillor Shozo Kusakawa. In 2022, she was appointed in the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, hence being the second woman to be appointed in an organization...

Retrieved 26 March 2023. Gunning, John (10 May 2023). "Return of yokozuna deliberation council offers good and bad". The Japan Times. Retrieved 10 May 2023...

history by becoming the first non-Japanese-born wrestler ever to reach yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. One of the tallest and heaviest wrestlers ever...

Sumo Association nominated him for yokozuna after the September tournament, but the Yokozuna Deliberation Council failed to endorse it by the required...

effective on 1 April 2021. Since 2015, he's also a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. Carmen '77 (Pink Lady) UFO (Pink Lady) Out of the Blue (musical)...

the Emperor's Cup? -The trophy given to the winning wrestler in sumo". Yokozuna Stroy Magazine (in Japanese). 22 February 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2023....

of the fans and to the person injured in the incident." The Yokozuna Deliberation Council had recommended his retirement, and would have pressed for his...

has also been referred to as "circus sumo" by a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. Glossary of sumo terms List of active sumo wrestlers List of...

criticized by a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. Weighing in at 133 kg in November 2012, Harumafuji became the first yokozuna since Chiyonofuji in...

in January. 27: Yokozuna Terunofuji–who competed in just one full tournament in 2023–is requested by the Yokozuna Deliberation Council to compete at the...

After his political career, he was appointed as a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council in January 2023. 政治家情報 〜大島 理森〜. ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). JANJAN....

the Yokozuna Deliberation Council over his recent lack of performances as a yokozuna. This was the third consecutive tournament both yokozuna were absent...

in his career was praised by the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. After a respectable 12–3 performance in his yokozuna debut, he won two further titles...

19, 2013) was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the 48th yokozuna in 1961 at the age of 21, the youngest ever at the time. Kōki won 32 tournament...

He reached the second highest rank of ōzeki in 1987 and became the 63rd yokozuna in the history of the sport in 1990 at the age of 30. He won four tournaments...

of age, he was the sixth youngest yokozuna to retire. It was noted by a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council that had he not been promoted he would...