Sumo rigged?

Wakako and Hanako are lounging in front of TV with a preprandial.

Wakako: Ah, so nice to come home and watch a bout of sumo. So graceful. So Japanese.

Hanako: Centuries old.

Wakako: Aah.

Hanako: Final bout. Dejima?

Wakako: Oh I like Dejima, There they go. Oh no, unbelievable! Dejima lost again?

Hanako: Could be rigged.

Wakako: Rigged? Sumo rigged? Does Dejima look like he’s deliberately losing? No, it’s such a traditional sport. So clean. Look at all the salt they throw.

Hanako: Those Freakonomicists went through the data. Some pretty compelling stats.

Wakako: No!

Hanako: Oh, and two whistleblowers who named names and had been sumo wrestlers themselves, suddenly and mysteriously died within hours of each other, in the same hospital, both of respiratory malfunction. And get this, just as they were about to hold a press conference at the Tokyo Foreign Correspondents’ Club.

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The Glassman Cometh

“Shall I give you a hand?”

“Just watch the end as I go down the corridor. You feel a bit insecure without a window I guess?”

“A little. But I believe in fixing broken windows quickly."

“You do?”

“There is a theory about urban decay, called broken window theory, that if you let small things remain broken or untreated in an environment then it’s all downhill from there. It got a lot of attention when Giuliani appeared to have fixed big issues like robbery and murder in New York by stomping hard on people who jaywalked or littered or didn’t pay subway fares.”

“Yeah, I read about that too. Some have questioned the conclusions though. There we are. All fixed.”

“Very briskly done. A cup of tea?”

“Thanks but no time. Three more jobs before five.”

“Break-ins?”

“Been a spate this past week. Police say it’s the same guy. Hanes.”

“Hanes? They know his name and still haven’t caught him?”

Left his footprints at all the jobs. See, there’s the mark on your balcony. A Hanes bootprint. Same print at all the other places. Police call him MISTER Hanes.”

“They know anything else about him?”

“He comes by train. Breaks in using a minus screwdriver on windows on first floors. Doesn’t work upstairs. He’s done something like 200 burglaries since last autumn near a string of stations on the Chuo Line. Police are a bit embarrassed they can’t catch him.”