{"id":69947,"date":"2025-03-08T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/08\/the-ukrainian-refugee-fighting-to-become-the-first-european-sumo-grand-champion"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T00:05:06","slug":"the-ukrainian-refugee-fighting-to-become-the-first-european-sumo-grand-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69947","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian refugee fighting to become the first European sumo grand champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known by his fighting moniker, Aonishiki Arata, the Ukrainian wrestler recently won promotion to sumo\u2019s highest level in Japan<\/p>\n<p>Danylo Yavhusishyn arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> in April 2022 as a teenage refugee from the war in Ukraine, unable to speak a word of the language and uncertain how long he would be separated from his family.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the 20-year-old will make his debut in the top division of the ancient sport of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2017\/jul\/25\/getting-to-grips-with-sumo-in-pictures?page=with%3Aimg-2\">sumo<\/a> wrestling, after rising through the ranks with record speed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/08\/the-ukrainian-refugee-fighting-to-become-the-first-european-sumo-grand-champion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known by his fighting moniker, Aonishiki Arata, the Ukrainian wrestler recently won promotion to sumo\u2019s highest level in JapanDanylo Yavhusishyn arrived in Japan in April 2022 as a teenage refugee from the war in Ukraine, unable to speak a word of the &#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":[41,88,1483,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sumo-wrestling","category-ukraine"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69947","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=69947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69948,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69947\/revisions\/69948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}