Police question sumo stablemaster Otake over gambling

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo stablemaster Otake (file photo) has admitted in police questioning to illegal gambling on baseball, the Metropolitan Police Department said on June 17, 2010. The Tokyo police questioned Otake before an article in the Shukan Shincho weekly that went on sale the same day mentioned him and top-division sumo wrestler Toyonoshima in connection with the gambling.

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