After two-time Olympic champion Masato Uchishiba was arrested Dec. 6 on suspicion of raping a female member of a university judo team, Japanese TV personality and the former first lady of Indonesia, Dewi Sukarno, defended the gold medalist on her blog. She personally called the National Police Agency to find out the name of Uchishiba's lawyer and in the process discovered that the case was being handled by the NPA's criminal investigation section.
"Was the incident that serious?" she asks. According to the police, the victim, a minor, went out drinking with the rest of the Kyushu University of Nursing and Social Welfare's judo team and their coach, Uchishiba, one night in September after a training session in Tokyo. (Japan Times)
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