[sumo] Article on Asa by Mark Schreiber

[JZ8D-SMMN at asahi-net.or.jp]

Oh dear! Barbara's rushed into things a bit here. She has some valid points but 
has got some others  wildly wrong -- and that won't help anybody. 

Lynn Matsuoka has had one Japanese husband, Iwatora. The violent husband was European.

Mark Schreiber is a real person and a well-known writer in Japan. 
He has been writing for the Japan Times and other publications for years, 
especially on scandals, past and present. Much of his writing is culled 
from reports in Japanese papers, but he also does his own sleuthing and
has written at least one book. I know him personally and to the best of 
my knowledge he does not use a pseudonym. I sometimes disagree with things he writes
and have occasionally told him so. When five of us walked out of Sumo World 
he started writing for it, and I believe his name is still on the masthead.

Mark Buckton, who is certainly not Mark Schreiber under another name, does not write 
for the Japan Times or any other mainstream paper. He does write for the Japan Times Online, 
which has a connection with the Japan Times proper and takes many of its articles and 
reports and puts them online for a large and non-paying readership. 
And most of us regarded his latest article as a fair summary of the recent events 
(though I personally wasn't happy with the headline -- but as a writer myself I know that 
editors sometimes add a headline I did not choose!)

Whhile I do indeed sympathise with Barbara's point of view and welcome the personal knowledge she brings to the forums 
she still writes for, I feel that with a little more research (even by Googling) she could have 
written a more effective letter that had a better chance of being published.

>Moti wrote / schrieb:
>
>> Where is Barbara when we really need her? Her leaving has left this to
>> be the truth. As an Asa fan, I'd sure like to see this "truth" to be
>> denied by someone as close as her. (I am referring to the "living in New
>> York part)
>
>She's here, and her answer is too:
><http://sumobaba.vox.com/library/post/sumo---the-yokozuna-controversy.html?_c=feed-atom>
>
>
Doreen Simmons
jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp