Category:Wakanohana Masaru

**Wakanohana Masaru**
	Japanese sumo wrestler
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Name in native language	花田虎上;
Date of birth	20 January 1971; Tokyo
Pseudonym	若乃花勝;
Country of citizenship	Japan;
Occupation	rikishi;
Father	Takanohana Kenshi;
Mother	Noriko Fujita;
Sibling	Takanohana Kōji (younger brother);
Relative	Wakanohana Kanji I (uncle);
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Masaru Hanada (花田勝 Hanada Masaru?, born January 20, 1971) is a former sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana III Masaru (若乃花勝), and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Koji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s. He is the elder son of the former ōzeki Takanohana I, who was also his stablemaster, and the nephew of Wakanohana I, a famous yokozuna of the 1950s. Wakanohana was a long serving ōzeki who won five tournament championships, and eventually joined his brother at yokozuna rank in 1998, creating the first ever sibling grand champions.