Sumo and the Right Wing

["John Racine" <gaijira@tky2.3web.ne.jp>]

> >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?
>
> Doreen writes:
>
> I have never said anything of the sort.  Rather the reverse. While the
> half-dozen rightists in their two buses were pounding away outside the
> Kokugikan, it was a standing joke among the regulars that obviously the
> Kyokai _hadn't_ paid them off!
>
> ~Doreen Simmons
>       <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>~


Sorry, Doreen.  I must have misinterpreted what you had written.

When were the trucks blaring away, anyway?  Was this during the ascendance
of Konishiki and Akebono?

Can we assume that eventually the Kyokai paid them off, and that's why the
trucks aren't out in front of the Kokugikan anymore?

Sukebeejima


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