Backed by an enraged public, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recently searched some 30 sites, including a raid on a major Sumo “stable,” or training center. The move was made in an effort to seize material evidence about the nexus between Sumo wrestling and the “Yakuza,” Japan’s Mafia-like organized-crime groups that date from the seventeenth century.
在公众的声讨声中，东京警视厅最近搜查了30余处地点，其中还突击搜查了某间著名的相扑道场。此举是为了搜集有关相扑手和黑帮分子之间联系的证据，而这些黑帮是一些类似黑手党一样的有组织犯罪团伙，自17世纪起已经存在于日本了。