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translated and edited by Mika Tokairin and Brett Larner
The Kanto Regional University Track and Field Association announced its decision following a closed meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 5 that Toyo University will still be allowed to compete in the Jan. 2-3 Hakone Ekiden in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving a member of the university's track and field team.
Sophomore Kazuki Kobayashi, 20, a steeplechase runner on Toyo's track team who was not a member of the school's elite ekiden team, was arrested on Dec. 1 for allegedly molesting a female high school student on a Tokyo commuter train the same morning. Toyo head coach Shinji Kawashima and track and field team administrator Yuji Kawano resigned in the wake of the incident, with Kawashima apologizing for the failure of his leadership.
Kawashima and three other representatives from Toyo met with Kant…
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2008/12/06/06.html
translated and edited by Mika Tokairin and Brett Larner
The Kanto Regional University Track and Field Association announced its decision following a closed meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 5 that Toyo University will still be allowed to compete in the Jan. 2-3 Hakone Ekiden in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving a member of the university's track and field team.
Sophomore Kazuki Kobayashi, 20, a steeplechase runner on Toyo's track team who was not a member of the school's elite ekiden team, was arrested on Dec. 1 for allegedly molesting a female high school student on a Tokyo commuter train the same morning. Toyo head coach Shinji Kawashima and track and field team administrator Yuji Kawano resigned in the wake of the incident, with Kawashima apologizing for the failure of his leadership.
Kawashima and three other representatives from Toyo met with Kant…