Sumo boss Kitanoumi faces assault, sexual harassment charges japantoday > crime /Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 07:40 JST TOKYO -- 28-year-old woman working at a Tokyo restaurant has reported to police that Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi assaulted and sexually harassed her ... ....Kitanoumi was the youngest to be promoted to yokozuna in 1974 at 21 years and two months old. He won 24 Emperor's Cups before retiring in 1985 and created the Kitanoumi stable....became the association chairman in 2002.