Former yokozuna Takanohana, who retired from sumo in 2018 as a stablemaster after a long tussle with the Japan Sumo Association, is making a comeback, this time to promote the sport overseas.
TOKYO (AP) It may be too little, too late. That's the realization sinking in as Japan scrambles to catch up on a frustratingly slow vaccination drive less than two months before the Summer Olympics, delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to start. The Olympics risk becoming an incubator for “a Tokyo variant,” as 15,000 foreign athletes and tens of thousands officials, sponsors and journalists from about 200.