Gaijin Yokozuna : : A Biography of Chad Rowan / / Mark Panek.
At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawai'i for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. But upon his arrival he was shocked less by the city crowds and the winter cold than by having to scrub toilets and answer to fifteen-year-ol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Name Reference List
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. A Big Mistake
- Chapter 2. Waimānalo Boy
- Chapter 3. The First Hawaiian
- Chapter 4. Professional At'lete
- Chapter 5. The Black Ship
- Chapter 6. The List
- Chapter 7. The Yokozuna
- Chapter 8. The Way of Sumo
- Chapter 9. The Promised Land
- Chapter 10. The Rest Is Up to Them
- Chapter 11. The Burden of the Tsuna
- Chapter 12. The Hardness of the Dohyō
- Chapter 13. Gaijin
- Chapter 14. Proving Them Wrong
- Chapter 15. Senshūraku
- Epilogue
- Biographer's Note
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index
- About the Author