Outside the sumo ring? Foreigners and a rethinking of the national sport

Multiculturalism in the New Japan: Crossing the Boundaries Within

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 208-217

  Tierney, R Kenji ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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