query: occupation dejima takeharu
supports: Professional sumo is divided into six ranked divisions. Wrestlers are promoted and demoted within and between these divisions based on the merit of their win/loss records in official tournaments. For more information see "kachi-koshi" and "make-koshi". Wrestlers are also ranked within each division. The higher a wrestler's rank within a division is, the stronger the general level of opponents he will have to face becomes. According to tradition, each rank is further subdivided into East and West, with East being slightly more prestigious, and ranked slightly higher than its West counterpart. The divisions, ranked in order of hierarchy from highest to lowest, are as follows: NHK operates two terrestrial television services (NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV), two satellite television services (NHK BS-1 and NHK BS Premium, both now high-definition television services), and three radio networks (NHK Radio 1, NHK Radio 2, and NHK FM). A is an official professional sumo tournament. There are six held each year, a system established in 1958. Only "honbasho" results matter in determining promotion and relegation for "rikishi" (sumo wrestlers). Tournaments in general may be called "basho".
  A literal translation of "honbasho" is "main (or real) tournament". This term is used to distinguish these tournaments from display "basho" which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking. This type of sumo is often called "hana-sumo" (lit. flower-sumo) as it is not taken as seriously by the wrestlers.
  "Honbasho" last for 15 days. Sumo wrestlers ranked in the top two divisions ("makuuchi" and "jry") wrestle once each day, while those of the lower divisions wrestle seven times, approximately once every alternate day. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally. It is generally considered a "gendai bud" (a modern Japanese martial art), but this definition is misleading, as the sport has a history spanning many centuries.
  Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto religion. Life as a wrestler is highly regimented, with rules regulated by the Japan Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in communal sumo training stables, known in Japanese as "heya", where all aspects of their daily livesfrom meals to their manner of dressare dictated by strict tradition. The is the body that operates and controls professional sumo wrestling in Japan under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. "Rikishi" (active wrestlers), "gyji" (referees), "tokoyama" (hairdressers), and "yobidashi" (ushers/handymen), are all on the Association's payroll, but the organisation is run entirely by "toshiyori" (elders). The organization has its headquarters in Yokoami, Sumida, Tokyo. It is awarded in each of the six annual "honbasho" or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most number of bouts. "Ysh" are awarded in all six professional sumo divisions. The prize money for a top "makuuchi" division championship is currently 10 million yen, while for the lowest "jonokuchi" division the prize is 100,000 yen. Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. This is the only division that is featured on NHK's standard live coverage of sumo tournaments. The lower divisions are shown on their satellite coverage, with only the "makuuchi" broadcast having bilingual English commentary. China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia. With a population of over 1.381 billion, it is the world's most populous country. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China, and its capital is Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan. The country's major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower. Dejima Takeharu (   , born March 21 , 1974 ) is a former sumo wrestler from Kanazawa , Ishikawa , Japan . A former amateur champion , he made his professional debut in 1996 , reaching the top makuuchi division the following year . In 1999 he won the ysh or tournament championship and earned promotion to the second highest rank of zeki , but he lost the rank in 2001 and , for the most part , remained a maegashira until his retirement in 2009 . He won ten special prizes and six gold stars over his long career . He wrestled for Musashigawa stable . Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia. Neighbors include China (officially the People's Republic of China, abbreviated as PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
  Taiwan is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations, and the one with the largest economy. A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence." Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized but not defined by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest.  Korea is a historical state in East Asia, since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states: North Korea (officially the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea") and South Korea (officially the "Republic of Korea"). Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the East Sea.
candidates: general major member ministry official radio religion religious rikishi saint sovereign taiwan television
answer: rikishi