Sports minister Yoshiaki Takaki told the Diet on Thursday that three people in the sumo world have admitted bout-fixing, further disgracing the Japan Sumo Association and jeopardizing its status as a certified public interest corporation.
Takaki told a Diet committee that Hanaregoma, chairman of the sumo association, informed him of the confessions.
The minister didn't name the three, but according to Kyodo News they are wrestlers Chiyohakuho and Enatsukasa and stablemaster Takenawa.