Court puts 175 mil. yen price on sumo stable license
Yomiuri Shimbun / The Tokyo District Court on Monday ordered the oyakata (master) of the Tatsunami sumo stable, former komusubi Asahiyutaka, to pay his predecessor, former sekiwake Haguroyama, 175 million yen for the right to inherit his license as a stablemaster...
Kitanoumi, chairman of the Japan Sumo Asso., said, "It's customary for the certificate to be handed down from generation to generation.
However, ... I don't completely understand the situation."

