Therefore, the winner of the top division championship receives a lot of trophies as tokens of recognition from the highest public figures of Japan but also from foreign States as diplomatic gifts.
Companies also offer trophies as a show of goodwill in support of the national sport and as part of partnerships.
Notably, the 2010 baseball betting scandal brought an end to the collaboration of a number of companies.
Makuuchi's prizes are presented to the wrestler who achieved a championship win on the last day of one of the six main tournaments.
[4] In July 2010, following the baseball gambling scandal, the Sumo Association refused to award any prizes with the exception of the winner's flag and special prizes, in the form of taking responsibility for the turmoil[1] and in 2011, the March tournament was cancelled and reclassified as a "Technical Examination Tournament", and no awards ceremony was organized.
After the last match on the last day of a tournament (senshūraku), the winning wrestler returns from the shitaku-beya in mawashi, a commentator then announced to the audience that the awards ceremony would begin with the Japanese national anthem.
At the end of the anthem, the commentator finally announces the wrestler's full shikona name and proclaims him the winner of the tournament.
This particular trophy is presented on the theme of Act 3 of George Frideric Handel's Judas Maccabaeus ('See the Conquering Hero Comes!').