More Race Science in the NY Times!

The New York Times reports that a native Japanese sumo wrestler has finally broken the Mongolian monopoly on the highest levels of sumo.

Blue Sky (a more placid Twitter clone for genteel liberals who love agreeing with each other and hate hearing the other side of an argument) is going berserk over the New York Times admitting that human biodiversity can have important real world effects:

After first outraging Blue Sky by asserting that “young Chinese women” have “small hands” (presumably on average), the racist New York Times is now implying that the Japanese tend to be smaller than Mongolians and thus less adept at their national sport of sumo wrestling:

Japan Welcomes a New Sumo Champ. Surprise: He’s Japanese.

Onosato Daiki became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in the sport.

By Victor Mather

May 28, 2025

Sumo is Japan’s national sport, steeped in hundreds of years of history and tradition. But Japanese wrestlers no longer dominate sumo.

So there was a sigh of relief in local sumo circles when Onosato Daiki of Japan was named on Wednesday as yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in the sport. He is the first Japanese yokozuna in eight years and only the second in 27 years, at least temporarily breaking Mongolian dominance of the elite levels of the sport.

Over the last 1,000 years, the Japanese have socially constructed their national sport of sumo wrestling. But over the last 30 years, what the Japanese haven’t been able to socially construct consistently, despite extraordinary efforts to nurture local lads into huge sumo stars …

Paywall here. Behind the paywall is my long lost Human Biodiversity Hall of Fame post from 2000: