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Nagoya Sumo tournament to go on as scheduled but damage has been done
By Zach Arnold | June 29, 2010
The Wall Street Journal lays out how the event is proceeding but at a big price tag of two expulsions and many suspensions of stablemasters and wrestlers. Take note that ticket sales for this year’s event are poor.
NPR talks about the long-time yakuza influence on the Sumo business. The reason the yakuza angle is gaining such traction here is because of match-fixing.
- Mainichi Daily News: Third-party panel set up by JSA to continue gambling scandal investigation
- Daily Yomiuri: Otake racks up 25 million yen debt from gambling
- Mainichi Daily News: Sumo stablemaster Otake had reputation as avid gambler
- Daily Yomiuri: Wrestlers gloomy, fans distressed heading into Nagoya Sumo tournament
- Mainichi Daily News: Late-blooming Ozeki Kotomitsuki faces dishonorable exit from Sumo
- Associated Press: Up to 1/3rd of participants in Nagoya Sumo tournament could be out
- Mainichi Daily News: Ex-sumo wrestler told police he was bookie in illegal gambling and had contact with yakuza groups
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