Re: TIME magazine on Akebono

"Sue Moe"  wrote:


>
> Do the Kyokai rules actually say that you can never return once you
> leave?  In the US, the money rule trumps almost every other rule.
>
> If Akebono is successful ($$) and popular in K1 and doesn't do anything
> too, too anti-sumo, and if in the interim sumo popularity slides,
> can they let Akebono return?

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They can, but they won't. Once you're gone you're usually gone forever.

Japan is NOT a "second-chance" society. If you screw up, you're out.

No excuses!

No apologies!

You Americans can't really understand this.

FUTAHAGURO left but is now back but in a minor capacity.

The great FUTABAYAMA also left (he joined a moronic religious cult) but then
not only did he return, he headed the SUMO KYOKAI!
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(If American baseball suddenly lost all of
> its 'heroes' and needed Pete Rose for some reason, he'd be in the Hall of
> Fame in a flash.)

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I dislike your comparison. Pete was a degenerate gambler. Akebono is a nice
guy!
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>
> From these posts, I understand that there are 105 director shares (the
> important shares to be an oyakata).  What about a return to the Kyokai
> at a non-director level (yokozuna promotion committee?) or something
> else?

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The YOKOZUNA PROMOTION COUNCIL is made up of older people who are not in
SUMO. Businessmen, writers, politicians, etc. AKEBONO would not fit into
this crowd. Besides, it's for Japanese only, not naturalized Japanese.
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