{"id":31595,"date":"2021-04-30T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T03:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/30\/sumo-wrestler-dies-one-month-after-suffering-a-concussion-in-japan"},"modified":"2021-05-01T10:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T01:02:34","slug":"sumo-wrestler-dies-one-month-after-suffering-a-concussion-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31595","title":{"rendered":"Sumo wrestler dies one month after suffering head injury in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hibikiryu, 28, landed awkwardly during a bout in March and was later treated for a spinal injury<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/sumo-wrestling\">sumo<\/a> wrestler has died a month after suffering a head injury during a bout, as the ancient sport\u2019s authorities come under renewed pressure to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/feb\/06\/conservative-world-of-sumo-slow-to-take-action-on-concussion\">more urgent care<\/a> to injured athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Hibikiryu, a 28-year-old <em>rikishi<\/em> in one of the lower divisions, died from acute respiratory failure, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> Sumo Association said, despite earlier showing signs that he was recovering from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/30\/sumo-wrestler-dies-one-month-after-suffering-a-concussion-in-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hibikiryu, 28, landed awkwardly during a bout in March and was later treated for a spinal injuryA Japanese sumo wrestler has died a month after suffering a head injury during a bout, as the ancient sport\u2019s authorities come under renewed pressure to pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,203,1483,42,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sport","category-sumo-wrestling","category-world-news","category-wrestling"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31595\/revisions\/31629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}