[sumo] Breaking News: More trouble for Asashoryu

[Judith Douglas]

I agree.  Takasago Oyakata needs to walk the plank.  If ever there was 
a spineless, unprincipled and unattractive  oyakata -------------

Sluggo needs to go.

Jude      Huzayomama

On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Achim Pawelczyk wrote:

> Clay Holden schrieb:
>
>>
>> According to the Hochi Yomiuri, Asashoryu appeared on a TV taping of
>> Japanese psychic Hosoki Kazuko's program on location in Mongolia 
>> earlier
>> this month, supposedly as part of a documentary on Asashoryu that TBS 
>> is
>> filming, apparently without the permission of Takasago Oyakata, who 
>> said
>> that if in fact Asashoryu made this appearance, it was a careless
> decision.
>
> Hosoki is said to be a tanimachi (sponsor) of the heya or Asashoryu, 
> that
> may have eased the permission by the sumo kyokai.
> One week after the PR division gave the OK (division head: 
> Takasago-oyakata)
> it was altered to: after the ban.
>
>> TBS, on the other hand, say they have an application for the 
>> documentary
>> stamped by Takasago Oyakata, authorizing the filming. Takasago Oyakata
> says
>> he first authorized it, then retracted his permission. TBS says they 
>> will
>> not in any case broadcast the program until after after Jan. 31st of 
>> 2008
>> (after Asashoryu's punishment period is over).
>
> The permission was for a documentary for the period from 1.10. to 31. 
> 01. -
> including the basho after the ban, something like "The return of the
> yokozuna".
> It was revoked on the 5th, but on the 3th and 4th they already had 
> filmed on
> location.
>
>> Nevertheless, the Hochi Yomiuri reports that the Kyokai will have a
> meeting
>> on Nov. 26, possibly to suggest it's intai time.
>
> Only the usual Yokoshin meeeting after the basho, intai talk all the 
> time.
>
> If someone's to blame, then it's Takasago-oyakata. Haigyo for him ? 
> Rather
> another 30 % pay reduction (how much left then ?).
>
> --
> Akinomaki
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