[sumo] LA & Hawaii Sumo Promoter Commits Suicide

[jdouglas at nyc.rr.com]

Some more speculation:  it has been rumored that this gentleman had an English speaking mistress who had a passing interest in Sumo.  To pique her curiosity he bought a lifetime subscription to "Sumo World".   When issues stopped arriving, she slowly pulled away from him,  citing the promise he had made to provide her with an English language sumo magazine.  He was notorious for compulsively reading the multitude of Japanese language sumo magazines.  He became a hoarder of sumo magazines.  It became more and more difficult to navigate his spacious apartment through the rows and piles of sumo magazines, none of which could be read by his mistress.   She aimlessly thumbed through the old, dated and poorly edited "Sumo World" issues while he passionately read his current Japanese language magazines, ignoring her while she pined for English language publications (for which he had paid).

She left him a week before the LA basho, mostly because she couldn't identify any of the rikishi without an English reference.  He was too busy with the business of organizing the basho to help her.  

The final loss of his mistress and the almost simultaneous 30th anniversary of "Sumo World" magazine with the image of Clyde Newton smiling shamelessly in the Japanese press drove  him to that moment.  

You may say it was Konishiki, but perhaps it was the empty spirit of Clyde Newton. 
The weapon of death - a pewter letter opener regaled with the Queen mother's bust?  Hinky.

 Simply conjecture;  decide for yourself.

Huzayomama