Nippon Sumo Kyoukai Kounin: Nihon Ohzumo

Console:	Sony Playstation
TV Standard:	NTSC-J
Country:	Japan
Developer(s):	Konami
Publisher(s):	Konami
Release Date:	2000-07-13
Players:	1
Co-op:	No
ESRB:	E - Everyone
Type:	Sports

Sumo is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler (rikishi) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyo) or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally. It is generally considered to be a gendai budo (a modern Japanese martial art), though this definition is incorrect as the sport has a history spanning many centuries.

Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto religion. Life as a rikishi is highly regimented, with rules laid down by the Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in communal "sumo training stables" known in Japanese as heya where all aspects of their daily lives - from meals to their manner of dress - are dictated by strict tradition.

The winner of a sumo bout is either:
- The first wrestler to force his opponent to step out of the ring.
- The first wrestler to force his opponent to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the bottom of his feet.

On rare occasions the referee or judges may award the win to the wrestler who touched the ground first; this happens if both wrestlers touch the ground at nearly the same time and it is decided that the wrestler who touched the ground second had no chance of winning as, due to the superior sumo of his opponent, he was already in an irrecoverable position. The losing wrestler is referred to as being shini-tai (dead body) in this case.

Sumo matches take place in a dohyo: a ring, 4.55 metres in diameter and 16.26 square meters in area, of rice-straw bales on top of a platform made of clay mixed with sand. A new dohyo is built for each tournament by the yobidashi. At the center are two white lines, the shikiri-sen, behind which the wrestlers position themselves at the start of the bout. A roof resembling that of a Shinto shrine may be suspended over the dohyo.

Nippon Sumo Kyoukai Kounin - Nihon Ohzumo is a sumo wrestling game by Konami Sports. It's a simulation game where you are the master at a sumo school, and you have to train your students to become great sumo wrestlers.

In the game the player doesn't control the sumo wrestler during the fights, instead, he control the stats behind the fights by training his wrestlers. The player can also recruit new trainees by taking them to restaurants and interviewing them. When training his wrestlers, the player can choose to bring up either their strength or their stamina.

Manufacturer's description:

Real wrestlers training simulation 171 wrestlers appeared in the real name. Introduced the motion capture technology, and in exactly the full force of sumo, expand the play is gripping in a commentary full of a sense of reality. In addition, it can be possible to create a wrestler original, dream match-up of real-name wrestlers and wrestlers raised also enjoy.

Features:
First person perspective.
3D graphics
Cartoon graphics
Sumo theme.