[sumo] Re: (sumo) Yaocho Story

[Barbara Ann Klein]

I don't know how the system works. I understand a jury system was just put
into place for some (criminal? civil?) trials, but here's a clip from Kyodo
News today:


>From Kyodo News:
 
◆Sumo: JSA to bring civil damages suit against bout-fixing claims 
	
TOKYO, Feb. 6 KYODO
     The Japan Sumo Association is set to file a civil defamation suit
against the publisher of a weekly magazine that recently reported Asashoryu
has been fixing matches, sumo officials said Tuesday.
     The JSA had planned to file a criminal complaint against Kodansha Ltd.,
which published the weekly magazine Shukan Gendai, but sources said it had
decided to take civil action instead.

BRTK
 

-----Original Message-----
From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:23 PM
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Subject: [sumo] Re: (sumo) Yaocho Story

Does Japan have a civil/criminal system like we do?
Where it takes less to convict someone in civil court?(Re OJ Simpson)

That sleazy paper brings up the same story every few years. I hope this time
the Kyokai does sue them. 
I can't believe than rikishi who train so hard & compete through such pain
would give away a win! 

Irene
Takanomizu
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