Ex-sumo stablemaster given 6-yr prison over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - This Feb. 7, 2008 file photo shows the ring in the building in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, that the Tokitsukaze sumo stable used as a temporary lodging before a July 2007 tournament in Nagoya. The Nagoya District Court ruled May 29 that a former stablemaster was involved in fatal violence against a 17-year-old wrestler in the ring in June 2007.

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