[clears throat]

...

the American sailors were pretty, mm, s- not scared, but disgusted by the, quote, "overfed monsters" which the sumotori were.

So they weren't really, really impressed.

And you maybe know that in Enter The Dragon, there's a little scene about sumo, uh, in the middle, and in the James Bond flick, You Only Live Twice, there's a little sumo scene.

But at the, in the '60s, '70s, sumo on the world page wasn't such as existent as it is now.

So there have been several events which turned on the internationalization or the international, um, image of sumo.

[laughs]