Just like that, there are no American rikishi left in sumo.
Wakaichiro, the sole remaining wrestler from the United States, called it quits earlier this month, and has returned to Houston.
His retirement, which comes just a few months after that of stablemate and countryman Musashikuni, leaves the U.S. without an active rikishi for the first time in seven years.
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