Playback ’93] Ten months after the “engagement of the century” with Rie Miyazawa was called off, Takanohana’s “new love” was discovered and photographed!

What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, and 30 years ago? In “Playback Friday,” we take a look back at the topics that made headlines back then. This time, we will look back at the article from the November 19, 1993 issue, which was published 30 years ago, “‘Riego’ for the first time! Ozeki Takanohana finds a new lover. The engagement of Takanohana (then 20, Takanada) and Rie Miyazawa (then 19), which was announced in October 1992, was called the “speedy engagement of the century” and surprised the entire nation. However, it was called off only three months later, causing even more of a stir. About 10 months later, he became an ozeki. He had become an ozeki and changed his name to Takanohana, but had found a new love…

Playback! On the night he finished his tour… The new ozeki took time out of his busy schedule to have a series of encounters.

It was early October. A few days before he left for a two-week tour in the Kansai region after the September tournament, Takanohana appeared at a white apartment in Meguro, Tokyo, around noon. He opened the door to his room, looked to his left and right, bent over and got out, and sank into the passenger seat of the dark blue BMW waiting for him downstairs. In the driver’s seat is a slender woman with long hair who had left the same room a few minutes earlier and turned the car around in front of the entrance. The car drove away as soon as he got in. Then, a few dozen minutes later, she returned to the room again, alone.

At this time, he had a relatively large amount of free time on his hands, and he came by the apartment on other days.

‘I saw him frequently,’ she said. She would pick him up at night and stay at her place, and he would go home the next day.

That night after his tour in the Kansai area ended, Takanohana returned to Tokyo and enjoyed karaoke with this woman in Roppongi before going to her room. The next evening, she drove him back to his room as usual, but in fact, Takanohana had to attend a press conference in Fukuoka in the morning of the following day. He had to attend a press conference in Fukuoka the next morning.

The woman Takanohana was so crazy about, 24-year-old Ako, was a mother of one child who had just divorced in September. When we interviewed her about her relationship with Takanohana, she had the following to say.