The Japan Sumo Association (Nihon Sumo Kyokai) is the governing body for professional sumo wrestling in Japan, reorganized into its modern institutional form in 1925 building on centuries of earlier sumo tradition, and headquartered at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena in Tokyo. It regulates professional sumo's ranking system, stables and tournament calendar, including the six annual Grand Sumo tournaments (honbasho), and oversees the sport's distinctive Shinto-derived ceremonial traditions and rikishi (wrestler) career structure.
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The Japan Sumo Association (Japanese: 日本相撲協会, Hepburn: Nihon Sumō Kyōkai), officially the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Japan Sumo Association (公益財団法人日本相撲協会, Kōeki zaidanhōjin Nihon Sumō Kyōkai); sometimes abbreviated JSA or NSK, and more usually called Sumo Kyōkai, is the governing body that operates and controls professional sumo wrestling, called ōzumō (大相撲), in Japan under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
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officially the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Japan Sumo Association
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headquarters in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena, in Sumida, Tokyo
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is the governing body that operates and controls professional sumo wrestling
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During the same period, on 28 December 1925, the Tokyo Ōzumō Kyōkai became the Dai-Nihon Sumō Kyōkai (大日本相撲協会, All Japan Sumo Association), an organization now recognised as the first incarnation of today's association.
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