sentences:  However, this did not last for long, as Rikidōzan was fatally stabbed in December, 1963.Coincidentally, the stabbing took place on the anniversary day of the attack on Pearl Harbor.Shortly after Rikidōzan's death, Townsend was reunited with third-generation Japanese American boxer, Takeshi Fuji, who had been friends with Townsend in Honolulu.