Ex-wrestler is voice of reason in Japan- N Korea crisis
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Tokyo
AMID all the angry grandstanding, heated rhetoric and threats of mutual destruction accompanying the North Korea crisis, a voice of reason has been heard this week in the person of Antonio Inoki, a member of Japan's Upper House of Parliament, who has just returned hotfoot from Pyongyang.
Master though he is at bridging human divides, he does not look like your average urbane and suave practitioner of the art of diplomacy. He has more the slab-like countenance and hulking form of a professional wrestler - which was exactly what he was until he entered politics. (His ring name is a homage to Italian wrestler Antonino Rocca.)
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