... during these years was the former sumo wrestler Rikidôzan. He faced a steady stream of foreign wrestlers, ... Ami, 1975; Ushijima Hidehiko, Shinsô kairyû no otoko: Rikidôzan, Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1978; and the Mainichi and ... 1982. 42 Mainichi Hôsô, "Za puroresu: 'Kimi wa Rikidôzan o mita ka. Ima yomigaeru fumetsu no ôsha'" (Professional wrestling: "Have you seen Rikidôzan? The return of the indestructible king"), 30 July ... in the text is based. In saying that Rikidôzan was "Korean" I am applying the standards of ...
Tópico(s): American Sports and Literature
1986 - SAGE Publishing | International Review for the Sociology of Sport
... created a national hero – a professional wrestler called Rikidōzan (1924–63) – who, using the "native" technique of ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2007 - Routledge | Asian Studies Review
Rikidōzan was a former sumo wrestler who introduced American professional wrestling to the Japanese public in the ... hero” of Japan. In his most famous performances Rikidōzan evoked the vivid memory of the recent war ... memory is neither uncontested nor static. Even during Rikidōzan's lifetime, the Asahi Newspaper discontinued coverage of ... were “revealed” in the 1980s, the memory of Rikidōzan has shifted. He has gone from being the ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Sport in Society
... activity. The star wrester of early television was Rikidozan. Rikidozan was actually born in North Korea; during his ... foreigners, frequently played by the American Sharpe brothers. Rikidozan's victories evoked strong nationalist sentiments and provided ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2010 - Cambridge University Press | The Journal of Asian Studies
... Sung-gi (1905Sung-gi ( -1996)), and the wrestler Rikidōzan .From there the arc shifts to the writers ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2023 - Brill | Journal of American-East Asian Relations
... sinema, 1998), Iron Palm (Aiŏn p’am, 2002), Rikidozan (K. Yŏktosan, 2004), Fighter in the Wind (Param ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2011 - Rowman & Littlefield | The journal of Korean studies