Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan

by Mark Panek

Book Overview

At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawai'i for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. But upon his arrival he was shocked less by the city crowds and the winter cold than by having to scrub toilets and answer to fifteen-year-olds who had preceded him at the sumo beya. Rowan spoke no Japanese. Of Japanese culture, he knew only what little his father, a former tour bus driver in Hawai'i,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824830431
• ISBN13: 9780824830434
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"