Yokozuna Deliberation Council Recommends JSA To Promote Kisenosato To Yokozuna

TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 23: Ozeki Kisenosato attends a press conference after the Yokozuna Deliberation Council recommended the Japan Sumo Association to promote him to yokozuna, highest rank in sumo on January 23, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The association will hold an extraordinary meeting of its directors on January 25. In that meeting the association is expected to officially decide to make Kisenosato the 72nd yokozuna. The last Japan-born yokozuna was Wakanohana in 1998. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)