Oshi-dashi'd message

[Basten <cbasten@statgen.ncsu.edu>]

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From: "John Racine" <gaijira@tky2.3web.ne.jp>
To: "Sumo ML" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Sumo and the Right Wing
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:14:45 +0900
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Sorry if you received this twice.  My last post my have been oshidashi'd
into the ether....


This issue came up on a list-serve unrelated to sumo.

Doreen made the comment that the black buses of the Japanese right chose not
to torment the Sumo Association because they had been paid off.

My questions (for Doreen, or anyone else who may want to take a shot at it):
How 'public' was this transaction?  How much did they pay?  Other than being
loud, what did the right threaten to do, if they hadn't been paid off?

Can we assume that the kyokai are paying through the nose right now because
foreigner Musashimaru is continuing to dominate the sport?  Because
Asashoryu is likely to become the next foreign Ozeki?  Because Russians and
Mongolians are steaming their way up the lower divisions?  Is there anything
else the kyokai has done to p*ss off the right, other than to accept and
allow the success of foreigners?


Sukebeejima