[sumo] Effect of jungyo

[Charles Beauchamp]

--- John Racine <gaijira at ace.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:

> > No employer in the United States would be allowed
> to
> render what amounts to house arrest on an employee
> for
> failure to line the employer's pockets which is all
> that this is..well..that and Asashoryu not being
> Japanese.
> 
> Just a few points about this:
> 
> 1. This is not the United States.
> 

Just a point...another member tried to bring into the
conversation North American workplace misconduct to
render his point..and missed badly.

> 2. Sumo is really not a "business" per se.  I forget
> what the kyokai's
> status is actually called but it is something like
> an NPO or a "cultural
> asset", or something like that.
> 

Mmm hmm...wrong.  Sumo is a business but as in most
debates you may invent whatever ideas you wish to
throw in.  The kyokai is a closed club..that keeps
shares in stock and splits money.  Um..that is pretty
much a capitalistic organization if ever there was
one.  It is a group of absolutely definite for profit
businesses by any real definition in a very
capitalistic country.

> But even if their motivation was strictly profit,
> and even if they felt that
> Asashoryu had cut into it by not attending the
> jungyo, why would they cut
> into their own profits more by suspending him? 

See my first post on this subject for explanation of
that.

> Wouldn't the best punishment
> be to force him to "line their pockets" by attending
> the honbasho?
> 

Of course it would.  I didn't say the kyokai was being
run by the brightest bulbs in the world.

> 3. As for Asashoryu not being Japanese, can we
> expect suspensions for the
> other foreign rikishi soon?
> 

Can we have explanation why Takanohana was never dealt
with at all for skipping all the tours that he missed
out on?  The punishment for Asashoryu is excessive in
the extreme.  The defenders of the kyokai in this list
are largely irrational.  Not a surprise that you are
in that group.


       
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