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Wakuda: Testifying is violation of rights
By Zach Arnold | March 27, 2006
By Zach Arnold
On Friday, we documented the hot political case in Japan over a phony e-mail and how the scandal had tangential connections to the fight industry. We noted that in the phony e-mail case, lawyer Osamu Wakuda was representing Takashi Nishizawa, who is accused to writing the fake e-mail. The reason we noted the importance of this scandal was due to Wakuda, who is also representing the yakuza-linked Seiya Kawamata. Kawamata was the promoter of the Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2003 show. He was the man who filed the complaint with Kanagawa police in 2004, claiming that he was violently threatened by DSE/PRIDE for booking Emelianenko Fedor on the Inoki show.
Today, Mr. Wakuda told the House of Representatives Disciplinary Committee that he did not want his client, Nishizawa, to testify under oath due to “violation of his human rights.” Nishizawa has had past connections to the Japanese fight industry, and it is these ties that would certainly become a big part of the investigation in regards to his background. The Diet had ordered Nishizawa to testify on April 4th.
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[…] Mainichi Daily News reports that former tabloid writer Takashi Nishizawa will have to testify on Tuesday, April 4th in front of the members of the Diet. As we’ve discussed in the last few days, this could be fun to watch. […]