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Troubled Sumo Seeks Fresh Start At Nagoya Basho

相撲名古屋場所

The troubled sport of sumo lurches from one crisis to the next ahead of the opening of the annual Nagoya tournament this Sunday.

Rocked by revelations of betting scandals and connections with Japan's underworld, the sport is seeking to restore its tarnished reputation beginning with this weekend's basho.

Champion wrester Kotomitsuki and stablemaster Otake have both been fired from the over 1,300 year-old-sport and 18 other wrestlers have been suspended from the upcoming tournament by the Japan Sumo Association (JSA).

Sumo was already a sport in serious decline before the latest scandals broke: allegations of drug use, the hazing death of a young trainee and nagging accusations of bout-rigging that refuse to go away.

The sport is no longer popular with Japan's youth and the best wrestlers now come from Mongolia, including the Yokozuna Hakuho and the now disgraced Asashoryu.

The public's patience with Japan's national sport was finally snapped by the revelations that 50 gangsters from the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest crime syndicate, had obtained front row seats at last year's Nagoya tournament. The plan was to be seen on national television and thus offer support to senior Yakuza members locked up in Japan's prisons.

When national broadcaster NHK threatened to pull the plug on live broadcasts the hide-bound JSA finally had to act to try and clean out the Augean stables. However NHK has made good on its threat and will not show the Nagoya tournament live for the first time in 50 years, opting for a delayed and abbreviated highlights show each day instead, after receiving 1000s of complaints from its viewers.



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Beware of Financial Crimes in Japan

asakusa-tattoo-1金融犯罪総会屋対策

We recently received an email from our bank in Japan, alerting us of changes to accounts to go into effect in February.

In June 2007, the Japanese government implemented its "Basic Principles to Prevent Damages from Antisocial Forces." All members of the Japan Bankers Association agreed on the "JBA Agreement for Strengthening Efforts to Eliminate Racketeering" in July of the same year.

The regulations include the following:

Refusing dealings with criminal elements, defined as:

a.Boryokudan (organized crime): Organizations that encourage its members to engage collectively or habitually in violent, unlawful, etc., acts.

b.Boryokudan-in (members of organized crime): Members of Boryokudan.

c.Boryokudan jun koseiin (quasi-members of Boryokudan): Parties who maintain relationships with, cooperate with, or engage in the maintenance or operation of Boryokudan by providing funds, weapons, etc., to Boryokudan or members of Boryokudan, but who are not themselves members.

d.Boryokudan kankei kigyou (organized crime-related companies): Companies run by members of Boryokudan, quasi-members, or former members of Boryokudan, that maintain relationship with, cooperate with, or engage in the maintenance or operation of Boryokudan by providing funds to Boryokudan or by other means, or those companies that actively use Boryokudan in doing business, etc., and cooperate in the maintenance or operation of Boryokudan.

e.Sokaiya (corporate racketeers): Sokaiya, Kaisha goro (corporate racketeers) and others who may potentially engage in violent, unlawful, etc., acts in an effort to seek illicit benefits from civil society and may threaten the safety of civil life.

f.Any other person relative to these or equivalent to any of the previous items.

2.When the customer himself or by using a third party commits any of the following acts:

a.Violent demand

b.Undue demand beyond legal responsibilities

c.Threatening behavior or using violent force regarding transactions

d.Damaging Citibank's credit or obstructing Citibank's business by spreading false rumors or by the use of fraudulent means or force

e.Any other act equivalent to any of the previous items.

Good luck...


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Fighting the Yakuza Kyoto

暴力対策協議会会員Japanese Yakuza Prevention Association Sign

This fairly menacing sign is affixed to a building in central Kyoto.

The chrysanthemum at the top is an official police symbol, and the characters on the right read "Fifth Avenue District." That refers to the main police station a few blocks south of this building.

The larger characters, at left, read:

Boryoku Taisaku Kyogikai Kaiin

Anti-Mafia Measures Committee, Member

These signs are fairly common, as are larger ones in front of train stations and post offices that proclaim "Mafia Free Zone."

One wonders what the actual mobsters - in Kyoto, the Aizu-Kotetsu Gumi (a sub-branch of the nation's leading crime group, the Yamaguchi Gumi) - think of these displays.


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Tattoo Bans

入墨

Many Japanese hot spring onsen resorts and public bath houses routinely ban people with full body tattoos (irezumi 入墨) as these are associated with Japan's mob - the yakuza.

The sign below at Hirugami onsen in Nagano prefecture clearly states that those people with full body tattoos will not be allowed in.

No tattoos!

If you have a small western style tattoo or designer tattoo it is not really a problem, as people will understand you are not a feared mobster.

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