For well over a year, fear of becoming the target of office gossip or upsetting his employer caused Junya Ozawa to hide his relationship with a work colleague.
“We just decided that it would be easier if other people in the company didn’t know,” said the 23-year-old employee of an event management company in Yokohama.
“We didn’t want other people to be.
She just snapped. That's what Yu Inoue told the officer on duty when she walked through the doors of a neighbourhood police station in the Kita ward of Sapporo, northern Japan, late into the night on Dec 23. The 57-year-old confessed to repeatedly punching her 82-year-old mother in the face, then stomping on the older woman's body as she lay.
Shaken by the fallout from a new scandal involving grand champion Harumafuji, sumo's elders would still prefer to handle crises internally - and punish those who break ranks. Julian Ryall reports from Tokyo.
Kei Komuro walked through the sliding doors at Narita Airport in Monday (Sept 27) and straight back into the media circus that he has largely managed to avoid in the three years since he relocated to New York. And the shouted questions, the flashes of countless cameras, the press pack tailgating his car from the airport – by helicopter as.