[sumo] More on Tokitaizan

Barbara barbara at technogirls.org
Thu Jul 5 10:18:59 EDT 2007


This article seems to be a compilation of reports from other papers, and 
has no new material.  It even refers to an article written on July 12, 
which is obviously wrong.
Barbara Murasakihana

Emmett Wayne wrote:
> This from Japan Today on 5 July.
> 
> http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/472
> 
> 
> 17-year-old sumo wrestler dies in suspicious circumstances
> 
> 
> On June 26, Tokitaizan, a 17-year-old sumo wrestler apprenticed to the
> Tokitsukaze stable, was pronounced dead at the stable's training camp in
> Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. Tokitaizan, whose real name was Takashi
> Saito, had only joined the stable the previous May.
> 
> An autopsy performed at Niigata University medical school determined the
> cause of death to be heart failure caused by shock from external injuries.
> But the headline in Asahi Geino (July 12) uses a different term to describe
> his death: he had been "lynched" - an English borrowing that refers not to
> an extrajudicial hanging, but a gang beating.
> 


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