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Taiho
Taiho won 32 top-division championships during the 1960s, and his combined dominance made him one of the most significant sumo wrestlers of postwar Japan, with the phrase "Taiho and eggs on rice" becoming a popular expression for describing something quintessentially beloved by Japanese children of that era. His rivalry with fellow yokozuna Kashiwado became one of the defining storylines of 1960s sumo, and Taiho's sustained championship dominance throughout that decade established him as the sport's most significant figure during a period of major postwar Japanese cultural reconstruction. Taiho was of mixed Japanese and Ukrainian heritage, born to a Ukrainian father who had settled in Japanese-controlled Sakhalin, giving him a background that made his rise to sumo's highest rank notably significant within a sport historically associated with pure Japanese ethnic identity. His combination of 32 championships and his status as one of the defining cultural figures of 1960s Japan has made Taiho one of the most historically significant yokozuna in sumo's modern history, and he remains a frequently invoked reference point in discussions of the sport's postwar golden era.
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Hakuho
Hakuho won 45 top-division championships during his career, more than double the total of the second-place wrestler in sumo history, establishing him as statistically the most dominant yokozuna, the sport's highest rank, ever to compete. Born in Mongolia before relocating to Japan to pursue sumo, Hakuho became one of several Mongolian-born wrestlers to dominate the traditionally Japanese sport during the 2000s and 2010s, a shift that generated significant debate within Japan about the sport's changing demographic makeup at its highest levels. His combined career win total and his 1,187 career victories in top-division competition both rank among the highest in sumo history, and Hakuho's technical versatility across sumo's many different winning techniques made him exceptionally difficult for opponents to prepare against. His record 45 championships and his sustained dominance across more than a decade at sumo's highest rank have made Hakuho the wrestler most universally cited as the greatest in the sport's centuries-long history, despite occasional controversy in Japan over his foreign birthplace.
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