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Re: [Rikishi News] Chiyotaikai

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Joe Kuroda wrote:

> But there is something bothering him.  Some newspapers, weekly
> magazines and TV shows are reporting on his "bad boy" days, quoting
> liberally from his old "friends" in Ohita where he grew up.  "Next
> time I go back there, I have to talk to them.  As now I am working
> seriously."  

The BBC World Service broadcast an upbeat piece about him last night, but
it also played up the bad boy image of yore.  Said he was well known to
the local police and would occasionally steal bicycles and hit people with
baseball bats, bad habits he no longer indulges in, we can assume.

Larry Rogers
Hilo, Hawaii