Re: A bit of sumo related news

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 21:15 -0700 6/10/00, Joe Kuroda wrote:
>It's been really quiet between bashos as far as sumo
>news is concerned but I managed to find a couple of
>news items:
>
>-----
>It's  reported that Sanyaku rank yobidashi Chohachi's
>house has been broken into by four or five
>non-Japanese speaking robbers on October 2.
>

How awful!  My deepest sympathies to Chohachi's wife, who like all sumo 
wives is quite accustomed to being on her own for nearly half the year. It 
should be observed, however, that all the *Japanese* robbers who do 'hot' 
break-ins have cottoned onto the idea of pretending to be Chinese.  How 
would real Chinese know to target an upper-ranking yobidashi?  The police 
are trying very hard to blame foreign gangs for the several-hundred-percent 
increase in break-ins in the last year or two, but the fact remains: most 
of the crooks in Japan are home-born Japanese.
~Doreen in sumoland~

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