The Yokozuna Deliberation Council (Yokozuna shingi iinkai, 横綱審議委員会), sometimes abbreviated as Yokoshin (よこしん), is the advisory body to the Japan Sumo...

establishment of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council (横綱審議委員会, Yokozuna-shingi-iinkai) on 21 April 1950, wrestlers have been promoted to yokozuna by the Japan Sumo...

early 1950s, until it ceased to be a nominating body when the Yokozuna Deliberation Council was created. At the beginning of the reign of shogun Tokugawa...

Regarding his rivalry with Takerufuji, the president of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, Masayuki Yamauchi, defined it in his review of the tournament...

Association, by being appointed to the Yokozuna Deliberation Council. "Konno and Ikenobo as new members of the Yokoso Council, the first female members since...

fact that a foreign wrestler could become yokozuna. In 1992, a member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, Kojima Jo, was quoted in the magazine Bungei...

day following the tournament, the Yokozuna Deliberation Council unanimously recommended his promotion to yokozuna which was formally announced by the...

prize. Regarding his rivalry with Ōnosato, the president of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, Masayuki Yamauchi, defined it in his review of the tournament...

Tottori in October. Fellow yokozuna Hakuhō was docked a month and a half's pay. The chairman of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council said, "Hakuho and Kakuryu...

from the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, which indicates that his performance is considered to be below that of yokozuna standard. The council had not previously...