[sumo] Tournament and visit

[Joe Petrow]

Actually, most prisoners in Japan probably wouldn't have access to a
television for the vast majority of their stay.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4111/is_200309/ai_n9292171

  - Peterao

On 10/15/07, Philip Sherman <philnorm at webtv.net> wrote:
> If all or majority of the allegations are found to be true many of the perpetrators
> will be watching sumo on tv behind the jail
> house bars.
>
> PHIL
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Achim Pawelczyk
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:32 AM
> To: Sumo Mailing List
> Subject: [sumo] Tournament and visit
>
> 3 ozeki holding mame(=bean)-rikishi at the dohyo-iri
> for the hochi sponsored tournament in Tokyo on the 14th.
> http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/zoomImage/20071014-OHT9I00001.htm
> Kotomitsuki was back to the jungyo on the 12th after severe stomach pain,
> having been in hospital from the 4th to the 9th.
> In the end no surgery was necessary.
>
> The tournament was won by Hakuho, 2nd year running.
> Starting in the 3rd round, he defeated Kisenosato in the semi with sotogake,
> in the final Roho with yorikiri, cashing in 2,5 million yen for the winner.
> Kotooshu made it to the semi.
>
>
> "Kawai-gari" the correct way: Hakuho with Kisenosato
> http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/special/2007sumoukyushu/KFullNormal20071014050_p.html
> http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/sumo/p-sp-tp3-20071014-269640.html
>
>
> Kitanoumi-rijicho and Tokitsukaze-ichimon riji Isenoumi-oyakata
> went to the parents of the dead boy Saito (17) to apologize.
> The visit lasted about 1h.
> http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/zoomImage/20071013-OHT9I00017.htm
>
> Several sports papers report that the parents became furious:
> "Don't know what they came for", "A performance", "Blaming the police".
> They think about suing the kyokai at a civil court for damages.
> Seems that as usual the riji-cho answered most questions with "under
> investigation, so I can't say".
>
>
> The doctor who did the official autopsy on dead boy Saito
> criticized the Aichi prefecture police, who at first had returned the body
> to the heya without further investigation.
> In an Mainichi article he clearly states that the result of the first
> examination, heart failure/cardiac ischemia was not the result of the
> autopsy and thus false.
> Without the parents acting after seeing the body, the case would have been
> closed.
>
> ---
> Akinomaki
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