Ex-sumo master's 6-yr term cut to 5 yrs over wrestler's death

NAGOYA, Japan - Masato Saito speaks to reporters in Nagoya on April 5, 2010, after the Nagoya High Court sentenced former sumo stable master Junichi Yamamoto to five years in prison for physical abuse that led to the death of Saito's 17-year-old son Takashi in 2007. According to the ruling, Yamamoto hit Takashi, whose ring name was Tokitaizan, with a beer bottle during dinner on June 25, 2007, and let three senior wrestlers at the stable beat him with a wooden stick later that day.

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