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First Published: 12:09 IST Last Updated: 12:12 IST After bringing in a mass hypnotist, street magician, stompers and beatboxers to its national cultural festival, Mood Indigo, last year, IIT Mumbai has stepped up its quirk quotient in its 2010 edition.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this MARK GILGER/Staff Photo Rob Tarlecki, of Elysburg, right, tangles with John Gregorowicz, of Catawissa, during the fourth annual sumo wrestling competition at the Ralpho Township All Home Days Celebration in Elysburg on Sunday afternoon.

The disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was sworn in to testify into allegations of match fixing in South African cricket.

The Japanese Festival is one of the oldest and largest in the United States. There is so much for the whole family to do.

JAPAN'S public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday it would resume live broadcasts of sumo at an autumn tournament this month after the sport's governing body promised to cut all ties with yakuza crime groups.

For the 91st year, the All Home Days grounds in Elysburg will be buzzing with activities for the annual All Home Days celebration, running Saturday through Monday.

The original former yokozuna Wakanohana, whose nickname in the ring was the "Devil of the Dohyo," died Wednesday evening of kidney cancer at a Tokyo hospital, the Japan Sumo Association said.

Walnut Creek's "One City, One Book" organizers hope area residents started their summer reading with Gail Tsukiyama's "The Street of a Thousand Blossoms." And now, just in time for fall, readers can dive back into the book and immerse themselves in Japanese culture.

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Japan Herald Wednesday 1st September, 2010 Sumo, the Japanese heavyweight style of wrestling, may soon find its way to the Olympics after 20 years of its internationalisation.

By Edward Hill - Goldstream News Gazette Published: August 31, 2010 12:00 PM Updated: August 31, 2010 12:45 PM Big Langford teen proves self as a sumo prodigy Clad in a white mawashi belt, he stepped in the sumo ring as an outsider, an interloper, a big 15-year-old kid without a clue.

A new target market for Apple's iPad has emerged - those who have fingers too fat to use normal mobile phones.

Sumo officials have stepped up efforts to weed out crime syndicates from Japan's ancient sport by setting up surveillance cameras at Tokyo's main venue.

Japan's ancient sport of sumo is embracing the latest high-tech, with its governing body set to distribute Apple's iPad to wrestlers who often struggle with smaller cellphone keypads due to their giant hands.

Victoria teenager Brodi Henderson has made a big impression at the 2010 U.S. Sumo Open in Anaheim, Calif., and his six-foot-seven, 367-pound frame is only part of the reason.

Steven Sande at TUAW reports [en] on the reasons that induced the Japan Sumo Association to distribute iPads to the "big-fingered sumo-wrestlers". He says the aim is to make the internal communication process smoother after the scandals that hit the association [en] recently.

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File photo of sumo wrestlers. Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads because their fingers are too fat to use mobile phones.

The gloriously corpulent cadre of Japanese ring warriors known in the West as sumo wrestlers and in their home country as rikishi have a new tool to help them communicate among themselves: the iPad.

The Japan Sumo Association is distributing about 60 iPads among all the 51 training stables and top association officials from this week to help improve communication.