Monday, 21 February: Miles Kane at Square One in Crewe, supported by Crewe's own Sumo Kings and Iron Door Club.
It is fueled by images that fill the childhoods of most urban Asian-Americans: photos of martial arts icon Bruce Lee, sumo wrestlers and Japanese cartoon characters -- all of it, on the inside pages, in not very chic black and white.
To succeed, he will have to travel some 700 miles in temperatures cold enough to freeze the fluid in his nose and eyes, pulling the equivalent of two Sumo wrestlers up and down steep ridges while trying to avoid lethal gaps in the ice.
Most new recruits are scouted at the age of 15, straight from high school, and come to sumo in search of glory and wealth.
They did the kimono-robe-wearing and sumo-wrestler-costumed party-goers the immense favor of obscuring their faces in the photos.
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In 2002 the impeccably sober American Economic Review published a paper co-written by Mr Levitt on corruption and sumo wrestling.
Tata Motors has increased the prices of its Sumo, Safari and Aria models by between 7, 500 rupees and 11, 000 rupees to offset higher costs.
"Sumo teaches discipline and history and is good for the soul, " says school principal Eishin Kosaka, harkening to the sport's past as an athletic embodiment of Japan's Shinto religion.
After four years of re-enacting The Lord of the Flies I had plenty of incentive to put as much distance between me and my home town as possible, along with a permanent loathing for calisthenics, sumo wrestling, locker rooms and anything that looked or smelled like a gym.
Lured by flashier sports and uncomfortable with sumo's religious ties, Japan has turned its back on a pastime once as cherished by its citizens as baseball is by Americans.
They met for dinner in Japan after a sumo match in 2005, and the next year Passin made his first trip to Mongolia before making his first investment there later in 2006 and launching his Mongolia-dedicated private equity fund in 2010.
The strength of the currency effectively pins down the profits of the countries sumo sized companies such as Toyota and Nomura while simultaneously making the generation of profits more difficult as well.
So the community fought back: a disciple of a local Shinto priest was called in to train a crack team of wrestling coaches, and Kosaka organized a sumo club that wouldn't contravene the Education Ministry rulebook.
The livedoor-Fuji battle, the Yumeshin bid and the mega-bank sumo-wrestling match illustrate three important developments.
While Mr Levitt wanders freely among sumo wrestlers, game-show contestants and other inhabitants of the outer fringes of economics, Mr Harford takes care of the home turf scarcity, competition, taxes and trade.
You know, fly a big twin-engine, 600hp Beech Baron that eats avgas by the half ton and burps carbon dioxide like a sumo wrestler on yeast pills.
Along the side walls, bricks are carved to resemble lattice windows, beneath which peonies bloom in pots, auspicious lions prance and guardians who look like miniature Sumo wrestlers keep watch.
Amid the pushing and shoving in lines, the future sumo champion earned a reputation for ensuring that the elderly got their bread.
And, however improbably, women have started a sumo circuit as well.
Instead, they while away wintry days with impromptu wrestling matches and cheer on Dejima, a Moriyama alumnus who has reached sumo's second-highest rank, ozeki.
Add divided government to the mix and 2011 is likely to feel a bit like the preliminaries of a sumo match.
So the dynamic here is like Sumo wrestling: two big guys grappling with each other, lots of ritual stares and grunts, little movement.
In the 2012 presidential election, both sides reacted so quickly, and so enthusiastically, to each alleged tipping point, they canceled each other like Sumo wrestlers in a phone booth.
Just as boxers suffer brain damage, so sumo wrestlers often pay the price for years of gorging on chankonabe, their special high-calorie pork, potato and anything-else-in-the-refrigerator stew.
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