TOKYO: Japanese police have arrested a sumo wrestler-turned-restaurateur for allegedly staging a sham marriage to a South Korean bar hostess 20 years his junior, officials and reports said Thursday.
Takaya Kobayashi, 49, whose ring name was Kotofuji, was detained Wednesday after notifying officials last February about his marriage to the 29-year-old Korean woman.
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