An enraptured crowd soaked up the atmosphere at the first official sumo tournament held outside Japan in 34 years An enraptured crowd soaked up the atmosphere at the first official sumo tournament held outside Japan in 34 years A t 6pm exactly, the first, and only, professional sumo dohyo anywhere outside Japan was finally ready. It had taken four days to build. The clay, shipped up from Kettering, where, the experts said, the earth had just the right consistency, had been shaped, sculpted,