Some scandals shock the public and others don't. The latter type usually involves organizational malfeasance that people suspect is a normal fact of life. However, in some rare cases a scandal of this type will actually strike people in a contradictory way: The purported malfeasance is not a surprise, but the fact that it's considered a malfeasance is.
In the middle of March, it was discovered that Katsuhito Shimizu, a member of the Waseda University baseball team, had received money from the Seibu Lions organization, which wanted Shimizu to join their pro ball club when he graduated. The payments were clearly a violation of the Student Baseball Charter, which governs amateur baseball. Shimizu was dropped from the team and Seibu launched an investigation into its own recruiting operations.
As a result, it was also learned that Shimizu had not paid for his tuition when he was a student at Kitakami High School in Sendai, where he was also a star baseball player. Waiving a student's tuition so that he can play on a school's baseball team is also a violation of the charter, and the Japan High School Baseball Federation has called on high schools who have given scholarships to baseball players to 'fess up.