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Archive sumo bouts on YouTube

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randal franks
12 years ago

SAVE SUMO

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ALEX MANOLIAS
12 years ago

SUMO IS WORLDWIDE

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Jason DeMenter
12 years ago

Bring Back The Sumo!

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mitchell porter
12 years ago

NSK will lose fans without free access to videos and streams of matches

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Yanikuza
12 years ago

Save Sumo !

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Mike Edens
12 years ago

I have followed Sumo for the last ten years. I hope to travel to Japan to see Sumo live. Losing the videos my cause me to lose interest.

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Alexander Michel
12 years ago

Sumo <3

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Barbara Ann Klein
12 years ago

NSK: You are doing yourself and Japanese sports history a disservice by dismantling Araibira's videos. In an effort to establish positive public relations for sumo, you are alienating a vast audience for you - the audience outside Japan. Few can visit Japan; few can afford tickets to the basho; now, very few can afford your "so-called" subscription plan. The only outlet for sumo appreciation was the library of sumo videos on YouTube and other venues, which you, in your total lack of consideration, want to deprive for your fans. Please permit the archiving of this magnificent, but somewhat inaccessible sport, to be reinstated in Araibira's public venue. Thank you.

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Christopher Sheen
12 years ago

Living in Japan I am lucky to have the opportunity to attend sumo live (and go 4 or 5 times when it comes to Osaka). However, when work gets in the way, I watch this channel at night to see what I missed. This channel is great. The sumo association still gets my money from tickets and other regular souvenirs I purchase for family members and myself. The sumo association needs to realize that more fans of the sport, no matter how they get their sumo (paid or unpaid) is still positive for the sport. They need to work with sumo enthusiasts not against them.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

unfortunately this will never happen, japan unfortunately has the general opinion of "if it isn't japanese, it doesn't matter" and then they proclaim that non-japanese don't understand them. unfortunately as long as the attitude of "open isolation" exists, they seem unwilling to understand the rest of the world. i wish they'd listen or at least be reasonable, but unfortunately, that will never occur

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Sema Express
12 years ago

Please!

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Alex
12 years ago

100% agree!

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Helga O'Donovan
12 years ago

I hope the NSK will work with you to make Sumo more accessible to the rest of the world!

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Jake Burroughs
12 years ago

100% agree! Great idea!

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patrick waters
12 years ago

It was the free live stream that brought sumo into my life and without i would know nothing of this beautiful sport. PLEASE!! I cannot afford $150 per tournament!

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Sam Metzer
12 years ago

These videos single handedly made me interested in sumo!

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Bernard McManus
12 years ago

Please make this sport more accessible in any way! Not less!

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Anonymous
12 years ago

This footage is a part of the history of sumo in Japan. It needs to be archived.

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Bernhard Salomon
12 years ago

ARAIBIRA should get a decoration in Japan.

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Ross
12 years ago

North America gets so little sumo as it is! We need Araibira!