"We received information that Mr Sonoda, the head coach of the female national team, might have been physically bullying athletes, " said AJJF head Koshi Onozawa.
At the University of the South Pacific, professor of environmental studies Kanyad Keshani Koshi says living standards are already low, and if the ocean turns against Fijians, they will only worsen.
"There are a lot of secondary impacts of climate change which will make the quality of life in the island Pacific very, very bad, as opposed to, say, very large land masses where people have a lot more freedom to move around, " Koshi says.