of them. Other personnel The Association also employes a certain number of other personnel, mainly to ensure the process of tournaments. Therefore, auxiliary personnel such as referees (gyōji), ushers (yobidashi) and hairdressers (tokoyama) are all employees of the Association. Contrary to wrestlers that do not possess a kabu, these employees are usually kept within the Association until their retirement. The Association supervise their training, usually provided by the seniors of the field of activity, and ranking. Highest ranking personnels (such as tate-gyōji) often hold press conference for their retirement. The Association also have a particular system for retired wrestlers who did not matched the requirements for inheriting a kabu. These former wrestlers are kept within the Association as contract employees, even if they still use their old shikona as professional name, and are tasked with various tasks. They can be separated in two distinctive roles: Wakamonogashira (若者頭), or "youth leader" are retired wrestlers (usually from jūryō or a maegashira) who serves as functionaries of the Association. They typically work at their former stables or within the associated ichimon. Wakamonogashira are tasked to arrange maezumō matches and supervising young sumo wrestlers from makushita and below. They are often seen receiving the trophies given to the tournament winner at the bottom of the dohyo to store them backstage during the honbasho closing ceremony. There is currently 8 wakamonogashira positions within the Association. Sewanin (世話人), or "caretaker", are also part of this system. They are the transportation and storage managers of the Association's equipments. They serves according to the instructions of other superiors (mainly wakamonogashira). They also belong to sumo stables. There are currently 13 sewanin positions within the Association. Departments Association organization The Association is ruled by a series of departments and committees into which the oyakata are divided when they enter their new career as coachs. Advisory body To this organization adds an advisory body called the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. Elections The possession of a toshiyori kabu is essential for the functionning of Association as elders (assembled in a board of trustees called hyōgiin-kai, 評議員会) votes for the board of the Association. The election process is heavily influenced by the stables regroupments to which coachs are distributed in. Each stable belong to an ichimon, or clan. There is currently five ichimon, each bearing the name of its leading stable: Dewanoumi, Isegahama, Nishonoseki, Takasago and Tokitsukaze. The ichimon serves as quasi-political groupings,