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Life after sumo: retired wrestlers fight for new careers
KYOTO: When Japanese sumo wrestler Takuya Saito retired from the sport at 32 and began jobhunting, he had no professional experience and didn’t even know how to use a computer.Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is particularly acute for those in the ancient world of sumo.Wrestlers are often recruited early, sometimes as young as 15, and their formal education ends when they move into the communal stables where they live and train.That can leave them in for a rude awakening when their topknots are shorn in the ritual that marks their retirement.When Saito left sumo, he considered becoming a baker, inspired by one of his favourite ca

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