The grand champions added an additional $20,000 to their total.
In the other hand, after being dubbed as the "grand champion" of the season, their win had to face criticism.
One American has worked his way up to grand champion and another to champion, the second rank.
Never before in the 300-year modern history of sumo has the issue of a foreign grand champion come up.
He was a popular grand champion, especially amongst women and children.
She won for eight straight weeks and became the first grand champion of the show.
He learns a lot from the man, and discovers that his mother's father was a grand champion of bass fishing.
Most significant, for the first time in the history of Japan, no Japanese ranks as a grand champion.
Contestants could become grand champions and win all of the prizes by winning six times.
The final grand champion won a Mercedes-Benz in addition to the money.