Originally Posted by
Nii
How popular is sumo in Japan still compared to... say... Australian cricket? =P
Do you mean how popular is sumo in Japan compared to Australian cricket? Or how popular is sumo in Japan compared to cricket in Australia? Because I don't know enough about cricket in Australia to answer the second question, but I can say that in the various sports popularity polls taken in Japan, baseball has long come out at number one. In a recent 2007 poll, 51% of respondents said baseball, 23% said soccer, and 18% said sumo. However, this down from the Waka-Taka boom of the mid-90s, when sumo reached over 50%. Still, it remains in the top three.
Josh Reyer
Swa sceal man don, žonne he ęt guše gengan ženceš longsumne lof, na ymb his lif cearaš. - The Beowulf Poet