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Sumo wrestling is on the menu at Tokyo’s Asakusa Sumo Club

Dinner and a show at Asakusa Sumo Club means a hearty meal fit for a 350-pound wrestler and a chance to enter the ring yourself. The restaurant seats 76 around the dohyo, a 15-foot-diameter circle of partially buried rice-straw bales in which a sumo bout occurs.



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‘Heal-arious’: Military spouse’s comedy mission is to bring laughs to bases in Japan

Ashley Gutermuth is a clean comic who does relatable bits about her life. She pokes fun at her high-and-tight haircut and seems to relish confusing people about her gender. The Best Medicine Brigade — founder and Army veteran Robin Phoenix, Christian Johnson and Gutermuth — kicks off the first performance of its Japan tour on Feb. 7 at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.

Only in Japan: Ramen pizza from Pizza Hut

Kotteri-fuu Ramen Pizza is a collaboration between Pizza Hut and Kyoto, Japan-based ramen chain Tenkaippin. There’s no tomato sauce on this gimmick of a pie, but you will find pretty much everything you’d expect from a product with ramen in the name.

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