College sumo wrestling is an integral part of the professional sumo wrestling. Many college sumo wrestlers hone their skills at this level and then enter a professional sumo stable to train with the elite wrestlers. These elite wrestlers have been captured on cards, menko, bromides, post cards, and all sorts of ephemera since the late 1800s. However, college sumo wrestlers received no such honor or glory. However, I finally ran across a small set of 1930s college sumo wrestling menko, but know little to nothing about them except for a few last names.
The new trailer for Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker released this past week and it has a lot of people in a buzz about what the meaning of each and every scene in the trailer means. For sure, I am excited and can't wait to see the movie later this year. 17 years ago in 2002, Episode II released in the U.S. to much fanfare as well and two months later it released in Japan.
The Japanese convenience store 7-11 had a huge promotional campaign where if you spent 700 yen (~$7) in the store you would get a pack of two cards.
If you had a winner lottery card, you could redeem it for one of the prizes given away during the promotion. According to the promotional flyer below, over 25 million snacks were given away as part of the promotion, 93,000 Star Wars movie tickets were given away, 50,000 gift cards worth 1000 yen (~$10) were given away and the grand prizes given away were 1,000 of the R2-D2 heated refrigerators.
I did a set review and pack opening on my YouTube channel as well if you'd like to check it out.
