Over on Twitter, I shared some reminder links but it’s important to post them here along with a few more items that have come in. Live sumo coverage is available via the JME.tv streaming service. That service includes four daily repeats of the sumo action from the night before, as well as the NHK’s non-sumo content.

As usual, this is your reminder that live top-division action is available on https://t.co/eiWP3K6TZ3 with repeats aired 4 times each day. This is an internet service, available in the US and Canada. To check if NHK World Premium is available near you: https://t.co/gtFdYIc2eG pic.twitter.com/41XCMasmAA

— 立ち合い (@tachiai_blog) January 9, 2025

NHK also posts videos of Juryo and Makuuchi action. As you know, my daily coverage will include the direct links to the daily Juryo and Makuuchi pages. The videos are posted pretty quickly after the bouts, so if you do not have a streaming service and the international cable options aren’t available, these videos should help. As international fans use these services I am confident that NHK and the Kyokai will open up more options, like the increasing YouTube options. Maybe one day we’ll get something from Abema, like lower division coverage.

Speaking of YouTube, the Dohyo Matsuri will be streamed live in a couple of hours (embedded above). It is the season of renewal. Our household just completed Osoji, the Japanese version of Spring Cleaning. But in much more exciting news, we have not just a New Year and a new tournament, we have a new tate gyoji, as well as a new American rikishi. From Oshima-beya, we also get news that there is a new heya and moniker for, young yobidashi, Katsuki as he transferred from Ajigawa. (THANK YOU for the update, Asashosakari.) Will we get a couple of new ropes, too? Brad will have something on that tonight

But next, we have the new torikumi, or bout list, for the opening day. Terunofuji will open his fight card against Wakatakakage, making his return to sanyaku. We will see VERY quickly what the Yokozuna’s conditioning level is. Wakatakakage has a title under his shimekomi already and ambition for more. A Yokozuna scalp would make for quite the announcement of, “I’m back!” We will also learn which Takanosho will show up as he fights Kotozakura. Hoshoryu will take on Kirishima and Onosato will fight Priyanka’s man, Tobizaru.

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初日の取組が決まりました。#sumo #相撲 #一月場所 #初場所 pic.twitter.com/75nVxOQsgI

— 日本相撲協会公式 (@sumokyokai) January 10, 2025

Did I forget anything? Yes, of course I did. But I’ll probably post about it next time. Along with it, I will talk a little more about the debut of Hikarumusashi, Hoshoryu’s cousin Gonbo, and Musashigawa’s other new recruit, Uchiumi. Maezumo action won’t begin until Day 3. We have time. Digest all of this stuff, first, before I forget it.