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TOKYO – Japan's scandal-tainted domestic climb of sumo grappling is covering newborn allegations that senior wrestlers utilised radiophone phones to plan how to mend matches.

Japanese media reported weekday that personnel hit institute suspicious book messages on individual wrestlers' radiophone phones suggesting they were thinking to mend bouts and feat so far as to detail how one would attack and how he desired his opponent to fall.

The book messages, institute on the phones of wrestlers in sumo's second-highest division, inform that the wrestlers routinely fixed bouts and live hundreds of thousands of yen (thousands of dollars) per correct to do so, according to Japan's Kyodo programme service.

Public journalist NHK, which affectedness the sextet period sumo tournaments live, carried a kindred report. It said sumo officials were thinking to hold an crisis gathering weekday to discuss the matter.

Police had no immediate comment. It was not country if a formal criminal enquiry would be launched.

Japan Sumo Association chair Hanaregoma said he was aware of the reports, but had not been contacted by police.

"We are examining the situation," he said.

Sumo — which has its roots in ancient churchlike ceremony rituals — has been tenacious by scandals.

Several wrestlers were inactive terminal assemblage for betting illicitly on ballgame games, allegedly with gangsters as go-betweens. That gossip followed allegations in 2009 of distributed hemp ingest among the ranks that led to the explusion of threesome Slavonic fighters.

Kyodo said the book messages this instance were institute on phones confiscated when personnel were investigating the ballgame recreation ring.

Last week, reports surfaced that threesome sumo wrestlers were participating in drunken incidents, including a late-night brawl.

Scandals are particularly broad strikingness for sumo because it is seen by most Asian as not exclusive a climb but a bastion of Asian practice and culture, and wrestlers are due to notice a broad accepted of open behavior.

But rumors of ties with the underworld hit been rife, and the ballgame recreation gossip deeply sullied sumo's image.

Unsubstantiated allegations of crook involvement in bout-fixing hit plagued the climb for decades, but hit never been proved.

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