Doshisha University's American football club has withdrawn from the league game that started this month and has been indefinitely suspended after four members were arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female college student who was too drunk to resist. announced that it will cease operations.
Fourth-year members of the Doshisha University American Football Club, Yuki Katai (21), Yugo Yamada (21), Ken Hamada (22), and Ryo Makino (21), were arrested this year. In May, he was arrested by the police on the 8th on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female university student who was in a state of being too drunk to resist, and was sent to the public prosecutor's office on the afternoon of the 9th.
Following the arrest of four members, the Doshisha University American Football Club announced that it would withdraw from the Kansai Student League Division 1, which began this month, and suspend activities indefinitely.
Director Hiroaki Komiya commented, "As a department, we take this extremely serious situation. We will fully cooperate with future investigations and clarification of the facts, and will deal with it strictly."
The police have not revealed whether the four suspects were involved in the incident, but according to investigative sources, some of the suspects stated at the time of their arrest that they "may have had a different perception from the woman." about it.