My personal view is that I hope they can keep sumo the way it is now. Sumo has been around a long time, and I think the Japanese should be really proud to have such an ancient part of their culture still continuing to this day. But it shouldn't be like that. Today's Japan, the world in fact, should look at sumo and learn. When sumo adopts practices that it doesn't need, its mystery, its beauty disappears.
People end up fighting for nothing.
It's pretty pathetic. It's pathetic from the point of view of those of us wrestling, but sad that it was also written up in a weekly magazine. But we're not going to give in to things like that. Frankly speaking, I came in for a fair bit of flak. But I'm still standing.