A look into the larger world of sumo is what playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring puts before us in her new play "SUMO," at the ...

A disturbing report is emerging from one of Japan's top sumo wrestling stables. On Wednesday, the Japanese news outlet Daily Shincho released photos from a party held by the prestigious ...

With the ranks of prospective sumo wrestlers thinning out, the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping the height and weight requirements from its recruitment test ...

A remote island in western Japan is a spiritual home for sumo wrestling. For hundreds of years, a competition in Shimane Prefecture's Okinoshima town has honored a local deity. Among more than 200 ...

TOKYO: Sumo is facing a potential chasm at the top ... He told reporters that he was retiring to train young wrestlers after "a tough 14 years" in the ring. "I've given everything but at this ...

Sumo Don't" (1992), and "Secret Society" (2000). Konishiki was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to reach the level of ōzeki, the second-highest rank. He made his debut in 1982 and trained at ...

Hoshoryu, who was promoted to sumo ... wrestler Aonishiki will make his elite makuuchi-division debut as a No. 15 maegashira. The promising youngster, who fled the war in Ukraine and came to Japan ...

Tokyo, Japan - January 29, 2025 Mongolian sumo wrestler Hoshoryu waves to fans in front of his stable in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2025, following his promotion to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna ...

March in sumo, both in Japan and internationally, came in “like a lion” as the old proverb goes. As expected, ticket demand for the Japan Sumo Association’s October tournament in London ...

In Japan, nabe, or hotpot, is a comforting, filling soupy-stew cooked in a donabe (earthenware pot). Chanko nabe – sumo wrestler nabe – is a healthy, hearty, calorific version that gets its ...

Image: Chris Christodoulou The last (and only) time that a sumo wrestling Grand Tournament took place outside of Japan, Hulk Hogan was still winning Royal Rumbles. "Usually in Japan we don't have ...

TOKYO, Japan — Sumo is facing a potential chasm at ... The Mongolian-born 33-year-old has been the only top-ranked sumo for more than three years, and only 73 wrestlers have reached his level in the ...