personnel changes announced

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Announced on 2009/07/06.

Exec. Board:
President: Akria Taue
Vice President: Kenta Kobashi and Masamichi Marufuji
Exec. Director: Hisao Hayakawa
Director/President of the Wrestlers Association: Takeshi Morishima
Director/Manager of Business Dept.: Masashi Mitsui
Auditor: Kanji "Joe" Higuchi

Consultants:
Haruka Eigen
Yoshinari Ogawa
Ryu Nakata

Akira Taue became the president by request from Misawa's widow who is also the majority stock holder.

Mitsuo Momota, 2nd son of Rikidozan & former vice president of NOAH, was also announced as one of the consultants but resigned on the following day. Momota said that he was recommending Kobashi for the president.

Apparently, there has been conflict between Nakata and the wrestlers in the management (Kobashi, Momota, Eigen, and Ogawa), and Misawa, who sided with neither group, was able to lead both.

Jahno.

[jgdc74]

I'm surprised Akiyama isn't listed there. Is he still head booker?

Do you have any more news as to what the conflict is all about? It sounds serious. I'm hearing rumours of some NOAH wrestlers possibly leaving soon.

I like NOAH, and really don't want it to shut down.