Re: Does anyone know the answer?

["Rob Hoey" <rchoey@kw.netlaputa.or.jp>]

Kawika, Do you have any comments on this since you are a member of Akebono's
koenkai? Were all the koenkai members involved in the decision to close
down?... or just the fat cats?
On another note, Kawika-san, will you be going to Akebono's wedding?
Would the basic charge of attending be the standard 20,000 yen paid at most
weddings by common folk such as I?
...............Rob


>At 05:08 98.8.13 -0700, OSAkamine@webtv.net wrote:
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>>Will there be any lasting effects to Akebono now that he does not seem
>>to have a fan club?  Could someone else start a new fan club?  Is that a
>>no-no since he had a previous one?
>
>The short answer is that money will not be coming in from this source,
>which is the main non-Kyokai source of funding. It'll be interesting to see
>where the guests at his wedding will be drawn from. Now that the American
>ambassador and his wife have agreed to be the 'go-betweens,' there will
>probably be no shortage of people willing to pay the basic charge - but
>presumably there
>*will* be a shortage of the fat cats who assume the responsibility of
>handing in envelopes containing a hundred thousand yen or more.
>
>Acording to a newspaper headline I read (can't quote it exactly, however),
>*all* Akebono's koenkai countrywide closed down. This is probably a bigger
>headache to his stablemaster, Azumazeki oyakata.
>
>And no, another one can't be started by just anybody; there are
>responsibilities involved.
>
>Doreen in sumoland
>
>  Even a fool can look smart - so long as he keeps his mouth shut.
>                                            Proverbs 17.28 
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