praisingshadows

it's so bizarre that some people here simply can't even comprehend the possibility not everyone wants to drink alcohol and then use their lack of imagination to minimize whatever offense might have occurred here. have people forgotten that a month after when this event supposedly took place another underaged rikishi was pressured into drinking and had to be hospitalised? the fact of the matter is that we have no facts of this matter. all we have is that hastily released pr statement and brief 'report' from the NSK to preempt the inciting tabloid article and i find it strange that so many have decided to uncritically swallow what the committee have published. the NSK only provides the barest detail that he was 'drinking with someone underaged' and you do the work for them by assuming he was just making merry and initiating the underaged individual to the fun world of alcohol. surely if this had actually occurred, being transparent would have only helped exonerate him in the public eye just as multiple people have already presumed and done here. we've seen merely recently that the NSK is not above providing salacious, specific details in other investigative reports. regardless, do you not find several strange points in how this affair was conducted? the paucity of information for when exactly this incident was actually reported, why an incident that warranted at least a 'stern warning' was only investigated more than 6 months after it occurred and how exactly was the investigation actually carried out? i've read reports about how onosato was interviewed and 'gave good answers', but i've not seen a single mention of the purported victim being interviewed. this certainly doesn't seem consistent with the zealousness that they've pursued other cases with. and finally, some people have claimed that nishonoseki has fallen into the paranoid culture of self-reporting but this is obviously explainable by another possibility - the nature of the offense was severe enough to deserve reporting.

so this tabloid article claims that there was initially group hazing that escalated after onosato joined in, providing the example of forcing the victim into drinking while they were having a bath? if true, that's a world away from 'encouraging your juniors to also drink while having a celebration'.