NAGOYA (Kyodo) Sumo stablemaster Sakaigawa purchased land in Aichi Prefecture in 2008 from a construction company whose board director had past connections with gangsters, sources said Friday.
While the director, a relative of the company’s president, is not a yakuza member, police have confirmed that he was once associated with them, investigative sources with Aichi Prefectural Police said.
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