Re: [sumo scandal news] Futagoyama future ?

["Rowan Klein" <rowanchan@hotmail.com>]

further to akinomaki's information, there is an article in today's online 
version of the mainichi shimbun.

http://www.mainichi.co.jp/english/waiwai/face/face.html

there is also a photo of okimisan on the web site.

Futagoyama sumo house crumbling amidst scandals

Sunday, Aug. 6, 2000

The sumo house that stablemaster Futagoyama built is no stranger to the sort 
of stories that titillate the weeklies.

There was younger son Takanohana's fling in 1995 with actress Rie Miyazawa 
immediately before his marriage to an older woman. Elder son Wakanohana's 
own marriage to a former stewardess, controversial from the start because of 
her open indifference to sumo etiquette, was on the much publicized rocks 
late last year.

And now -- what is the horde of journalists doing outside Futagoyama's house 
in Tokyo's Nakano-ku on July 27 at 8 p.m.?
Answer: waiting for Futagoyama, to ask how he feels about rumors his wife is 
having an affair with a doctor 18 years her junior.

Shukan Josei (8/15) is among them, and we can imagine the suspense as the 
car drives up at last. But Futagoyama is not in it.
Where is he? At Wakanohana's? Takanohana's? A certain "Hotel N?" A dozen 
hypotheses don't make a certainty.

The driver unloads some luggage and drives off. Two hours later the car 
returns, with Futagoyama this time, and the mob closes in. In vain. He is 
tight-lipped. He has no comment. He brushes past the microphone-waving, 
question-shouting newshounds into the house.
He mounts the stairs -- not to the third floor conjugal bedroom, Josei 
Jishin (8/15) informs us, but to a solitary room on the fourth floor.

Let Shukan Post (8/11) take us back to the Nagoya tournament preceding the 
commotion in Nakano-ku. It was during the tournament that the story of 
Noriko Hanada's alleged infidelity broke in the women's weeklies. "What do 
you think you're up to?"
Futagoyama was overheard shouting into the telephone. Wakanohana managed 
with difficulty to calm him down. And then, Shukan Post continues, on July 
22, the 14th day of the tournament, Futagoyama briefly disappeared. Version 
one: He met Noriko at a country house owned by her family. Version two: He 
met with stable supporters. Does it matter? All we know for sure is that 
nothing was resolved.

At first, says Shukan Post, Noriko denied verything. On the first of two 
nights in question, she reportedly insisted, she and some friends, the 
doctor apparently among them, had gathered at the Nakano-ku stable to have 
dinner and watch Wakanohana's appearance on TV Asahi's News Station. A 
typhoon was threatening, and Noriko insisted the doctor not try to get home. 
Unconvinced, Futagoyama told her to cancel plans to attend the final day of 
the tournament, lest unseemliness pollute the "holy venue."

The once-mighty Futagoyama stable is on shaky grounds. Wakanohana is already 
retired, and Takanohana, plagued by injuries, may follow him this year. As 
for the stablemaster, when, asks Shukan Post, will the divorce be? Its 
answer: Probably after the September tournament.
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