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Samoan sumotori Salveva’a Atisinoe — who competed under the name Konishiki Yasokichi and was the first non-Japanese person to reach the sumo rank of ōzeki (second-highest) came to the Polynesian Cultural Center in January 1992 to film a Japanese Fuji TV Network special for his upcoming marriage to a Japanese woman. PCC President & CEO Lester W.B. Moore is in the background. Konishiki’s family lived in Wai’anae.