The sumo wrestling world is in turmoil. Wrestlers have been caught placing bets on baseball games with "gangsters" and already one high-ranked wrestler has been fired, and a dozen others suspended from the on-going tournament in Nagoya. NHK, the national broadcasting service, has decided to "punish" the sumo association by withdrawing live coverage of the tournament and instead offers only a digest after the day's bouts are finished. The coveted Emperor's Cup will not be awarded to the winner of the tournament either - a move designed to further punish this ancient Japanese sport.
On the news yesterday (July 13), it was revealed that sumo wrestlers' contacts with criminal organizations had been established by the discovery - in a police raid - of a name card from a "known criminal".
Which got me to wondering. What kind of name card would a member of a criminal gang carry?
Criminal organizations in Japan are designated as such by the national government, so clearly whether one's gang was a "designated" gang would be important information to have on one's name card. The name of your criminal organization would also be essential; one would not want to be confused with some other gang's members. The address of your main office would be a must, of course! What would be the point of passing out name cards if they didn't provide information about how to get in touch with you.
With all this in mind, I have recreated (in English) what the name card must look like, the pterosaurish scoop of the day!
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