Doping in Sumo

[Samurai_Jerk]

[IkemenTommy]

[Mike Oxlong]

Game over. Go home and tell mom & dad you're a failure...

[Greji]

Deportation straight back to Rrrrussia.

After the routine 75 court appearances..

[xenomorph42]

After the routine 75 court appearances..

At least 75 minimum!

[halfnip]

Kotooshuu is about the only level headed clean foreign sumo wrestler out there now. I know of a few other Rikishi that are complete tweekers, but will not mention any names for fear of getting the shit slapped out of me.

[TFG]

Japanese minors go on indiscriminate murdering sprees yet there names are not printed in the news. This guy, has a spliff and his name and photo are all over the news. Same double standards.
The guy must really have been as thick as a plank to submit a lost property file with the police when he knew he had a spliff in his wallet.
Many Japanese sumo wrestlers are known to go to ranko parties where the herb is smoked, and have been for years.

[Gilligan]

I would think, theoretically anyway, where the wallet was out of his possession for a not insignificant amount of time, he would legitimately be able to claim that the weed was not his. I mean it's not like it feel out of his wallet while he was getting out his gaijin card to show the cops at some random stop.

[halfnip]

I would think, theoretically anyway, where the wallet was out of his possession for a not insignificant amount of time, he would legitimately be able to claim that the weed was not his. I mean it's not like it feel out of his wallet while he was getting out his gaijin card to show the cops at some random stop.

Hey, where's Johnny Cochran when you need him, eh?

[Charles]

Hey, where's Johnny Cochran when you need him, eh?

He's dead.

[Mulboyne]

The Asahi reports (Japanese) that police confiscated water pipe paraphernalia from his room which leads the paper to speculate that he was a "habitual user".

[TFG]

At least they didn't lock him in a hospital ward & take a secret urine test on him.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Buraku]

Japanese minors go on indiscriminate murdering sprees yet there names are not printed in the news. This guy, has a spliff and his name and photo are all over the news. Same double standards.
The guy must really have been as thick as a plank to submit a lost property file with the police when he knew he had a spliff in his wallet.
Many Japanese sumo wrestlers are known to go to ranko parties where the herb is smoked, and have been for years.

Pot in japan ain't a joke, there's a reason most gaijins don't do drugs in Japan


[quote]japan-guide :
According to the Japanese law ]
Gaijins who grow it to sell are fucking stupid
of course its still widely available, the Yakuza are in bed with Cops and I'm sure the US dog sniffers would go crazy over those middle-eastern guys selling jewelery to local Japanese

[Greji]

I heard on TV tonight on one of the channels that the J-police on finding the pipe, or bong, or whatever it was in the dud(e)'s stable room, immediately questioned all four of the other Russian sumoka's in Japan to see if they were using.

I suppose this would be a logical lead at some point during the investigation, but they didn't mention the other sumokas of the same stable, or elsewhere. It was just the FG Russians, obviously no J-flesh benders could be involved.

Sounds like a case for Super Debito, yuk yuk....

[xenomorph42]

I would think, theoretically anyway, where the wallet was out of his possession for a not insignificant amount of time, he would legitimately be able to claim that the weed was not his. I mean it's not like it feel out of his wallet while he was getting out his gaijin card to show the cops at some random stop.

And you think, the Japanese system is fair and just, that it will just simply believe that or take it with a grain of salt. Sure, he can play the deniability card all day, put in this country, having a blunt can seriously cost you, yea I think people here are making way too much fuss about it, but at least the dude doesn't have to worry about getting the death penalty as he might have in other countries.
To me it's all much to do about nothing, depending on your point of view, but I guess the Japanese want to really make an example out of this guy. In the states usually a blunt equals to about a misdemeanor, in Japan however, it's a felony.

[Mulboyne]

...I guess the Japanese want to really make an example out of this guy. In the states usually a blunt equals to about a misdemeanor, in Japan however, it's a felony.

There have been a number of high profile drug busts recently, especially in the entertainment world. This story is getting a lot more coverage because it involves the sumo world, which is still reeling from a series of scandals. Certainly, it also adds to the story that the accused is a foreigner but a Japanese wrestler caught in the same circumstances would have made headlines too.

[Mike Oxlong]

Heard he's been given marching orders. And his boss quit.

[TFG]

[quote="Buraku"]Quote:
japan-guide :
According to the Japanese law ]


Wow, 5 years for a single joint but only 4 years for a few Kilos.

Just goes to show that serious crime pays.

Seriously though folks, the sumo bullies kill a fellow wrestler and go free, this guy has a splif and gets arrested.

[Behan]

Wow, 5 years for a single joint but only 4 years for a few Kilos.

Just goes to show that serious crime pays.

Seriously though folks, the sumo bullies kill a fellow wrestler and go free, this guy has a splif and gets arrested.

Good point.

Getting high is worse than beating someome to death with baseball bats and beer bottles.

[Mike Oxlong]

Whacking someone with a car isn't too serious, either.

In December of 2000, maegashira Toki, who is Japanese, hit and killed a pedestrian while driving in Osaka. He was suspended for only one tournament.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/russian-sumo-wrestler-banned-for-life

[Mulboyne]

...Seriously though folks, the sumo bullies kill a fellow wrestler and go free..

When did they go free? The last I heard, the stablemaster and three wrestlers involved were up on manslaughter charges.

[Taro Toporific]

Sounds like a case for Super Debito, yuk yuk....

Sumo association decides to dismiss arrested Russian wrestler
Aug. 21 TOKYO, Japan (Kyodo)
Kitanoumi, chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, speaks at a news conference at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Aug. 21 after the JSA's decision at an emergency executive board meeting to boot out top-division Russian wrestler Wakanoho, who was arrested on Aug. 18 on suspicion of possessing marijuana. Wakanoho is the first active wrester[color="Silver"] [sic] [/color]to be dismissed in sumo's long history.

[Mulboyne]

Wakanoho is the first active wrester[color="Silver"] [sic] [/color]to be dismissed in sumo's long history.

That's not entirely accurate. Futahaguro was thrown out of sumo when he was a yokozuna. He allegedly hit his stable master's wife after an argument. His wiki entry says "The elders of the Sumo Association responded, without giving Futahaguro a hearing, by voting to accept his 'resignation'." Semantically there is a difference but, practically speaking, it still meant he was thrown out.

[Greji]

That's not entirely accurate. Futahaguro was thrown out of sumo when he was a yokozuna. He allegedly hit his stable master's wife after an argument. His wiki entry says "The elders of the Sumo Association responded, without giving Futahaguro a hearing, by voting to accept his 'resignation'." Semantically there is a difference but, practically speaking, it still meant he was thrown out.

There have been many "resignations" in sumo. It of course, is the typical way of doing business. When you step in the middle of a pile, you submit your resignation. The upper level executives, or in this case, the sumo elders, hold it for as long as necessary to determine if the scandal will blow over, or have too much damage to recover face and then accept it, or reject it, as appropriate. That way, everybody has satisfied their giri on the deal.