Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan 9780824838041
At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawai'i for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete
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English Pages 320 Year 2006
Table of contents :
Contents
Name Reference List
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. A Big Mistake
Chapter 2. Waimānalo Boy
Chapter 3. The First Hawaiian
Chapter 4. Professional At’lete
Chapter 5. The Black Ship
Chapter 6. The List
Chapter 7. The Yokozuna
Chapter 8. The Way of Sumo
Chapter 9. The Promised Land
Chapter 10. The Rest Is Up to Them
Chapter 11. The Burden of the Tsuna
Chapter 12. The Hardness of the Dohyō
Chapter 13. Gaijin
Chapter 14. Proving Them Wrong
Chapter 15. Senshūraku
Epilogue
Biographer’s Note
Glossary
Sources
Index
About the Author
