Turning Japanese
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Nome November a pair of giant sumo wrestlers will materialise in front of London's Euston station struggling to hold a huge Freightliner container above their heads.
Harassed commuters may well pause in bafflement at this strange apparition before hurrying into the stygian gloom of the underground. Few will note that the wrestlers are glass-fibre constructions by sculptor David Mach for the Japan Festival, and sponsored by Railfreight Distribution and Camden! Council.
But they might well have cause to worry if they . asked the sponsors what it all means. "As they push against each other in a monumental effort to hold this great weight," explains a news release, 'they become locked in a precarious position where, if either one of them stops pushing, everything collapses."