The Sumo and the Yakuza

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The Sumo gambling scandal, indeed, may be a prelude to it.

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This cozy relationship was supposedly dissolved when the traditional Sumo circle was modernized, becoming today s JSA.

The Yakuza s grip on the Sumo circle is important, because its traditional way of life is fraying.

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As a result, some Sumo stables have become associated in one way or another with people running front companies for Yakuza organizations.

These links raise the question of the real objective of the Japanese police, a bureaucratic behemoth, in their investigation of the Sumo circle.

The elders of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA), the retired wrestlers who govern the sport, see themselves less as administrators than as guardians of a holy tradition.

Backed by an enraged public, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recently searched some 30 sites, including a raid on a major Sumo stable, or training center.

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Indeed, Japanese Sumo circles are now facing growing public infamy, causing many Japanese to wonder if the country, after 20 years of stagnation, is capable of purifying itself.

So it is likely that next year will see a showdown between the police and the Yamaguchi Gumi. The Sumo gambling scandal, indeed, may be a prelude to it.

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The move was made in an effort to seize material evidence about the nexus between Sumo wrestling and the Yakuza, Japan s Mafia like organized crime groups that date from the seventeenth century.

Sumo evolved over many centuries as a peripatetic form of public entertainment in which the wrestlers, trainers, and promoters depended on local gangs to secure facilities and an audience, including selling the tickets.

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Some analysts suspect that the Sumo circle has provided some of the best match tickets to Yakuza leaders, who, as matches were shown on television, sent signals to the godfather that they remain loyal to him.

I, and many of my generation, recall the photograph of the burly Socialist MP, Raj Narain, a former wrestler, being carried out of the house by four attendants for shouting out of turn and disobeying the speaker s orders to return to his seat.

One of my abiding recollections from childhood was the photograph of a burly Socialist parliamentarian, Raj Narain, a former wrestler, being bodily carried out of the House by four sergeants at arms for shouting out of turn and disobeying the Speaker s orders to return to his seat.

There was a time when misbehavior was dealt with firmly. One of my abiding recollections from childhood was the photograph of a burly Socialist parliamentarian, Raj Narain, a former wrestler, being bodily carried out of the House by four sergeants at arms for shouting out of turn and disobeying the Speaker s orders to return to his seat.