{"id":63239,"date":"2024-04-11T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/11\/pioneering-hawaiian-born-sumo-champion-akebono-dies-aged-54"},"modified":"2024-04-11T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T04:20:45","slug":"pioneering-hawaiian-born-sumo-champion-akebono-dies-aged-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63239","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Hawaiian-born sumo champion Akebono dies aged 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes paid to wrestler, who was born Chad Rowan and became the sport\u2019s first non-Japanese grand champion in 1993<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have been paid in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> to Akebono, the first foreign wrestler to reach the pinnacle of the sport of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/sumo-wrestling\">sumo<\/a>, who has died aged 54.<\/p>\n<p>The wrestler, who was born Chad Rowan in Hawaii, is regarded as a pioneer after he broke down cultural barriers in the centuries-old sport to become the first non-Japanese <em>yokozuna<\/em> grand champion in 1993.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/11\/pioneering-hawaiian-born-sumo-champion-akebono-dies-aged-54\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes paid to wrestler, who was born Chad Rowan and became the sport\u2019s first non-Japanese grand champion in 1993Tributes have been paid in Japan to Akebono, the first foreign wrestler to reach the pinnacle of the sport of sumo, who has died aged 54&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sport","category-sumo-wrestling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63239","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63240,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63239\/revisions\/63240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}