foreign wrestler. November 8: In the National Student Sumo Championships, Hisashi Ōmichi, a fourth-year student at Toyo University, wins the title of "Amateur Yokozuna" as well as the rank of makushita #15 in the next professional tournament. 11: Maegashira Takayasu wins a kinboshi with the isamiashi of his yokozuna opponent Harumafuji. It is the first time in 42 years that a kinboshi has been won in this fashion since Kitanofuji's loss to Takanohana in the March 1972 tournament. It is also the first time in 18 years that a yokozuna committed an isamiashi since Akebono's loss to sekiwake Takatōriki in the May 1996 tournament. 14: Yokozuna Hakuhō is defeated by maegashira Takayasu and relinquishes a kinboshi. It is the first kinboshi to be given by Hakuhō in ten tournaments since his loss against Myōgiryū in the January 2013 tournament, and his consecutive streak of wins against maegashira wrestlers ends at 82. His record of consecutive uninterrupted kachikoshi also ends at ten tournaments. 16: At the regular Japan Sumo Association board meeting, a provision is decided and introduced in which elders who have retired at the age of 65 may be rehired until the age of 70. Hakuhō achieves his eighth consecutive kachikoshi. 20: The Fukuoka Kokusai Center sees its first full house on a weekday in 17 years. 22: Kotoshōgiku obtains a makekoshi, making him and Gōeidō the first pair of ōzeki to receive makekoshi since Miyabiyama and Musōyama in the July 2000 tournament. For the first time in 15 years, all six tournaments of 2014 would see their championship decided on the final day. 23: Hakuhō equals Taihō's record of 32 tournament titles, set in 1971, by defeating Kakuryū to finish two wins clear of his nearest rival at 14–1. Hakuhō was inspired by yokozuna Taihō, who had links to his Miyagino stable and occasionally attended training sessions there. Hakuhō had visited Taihō just two days before his death in January 2013 and told him he would try to break his record. Hakuhō's only defeat is to Takayasu, who scores 10–5 and wins the Outstanding Performance Award. Both sekiwake, Aoiyama and Ichinojō, were making their debuts at the rank and both come through with winning records, the first time this has happened in seven years. Tokitenkū wins a jūryō championship for the second time since the May 2004 tournament. At 35 years and two months old, he is the