An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

The death of a young diabetic sumo wrestler in May has reignited fears ... whereupon he returned to his native Russian Republic of Buryatia and made up his mind to “slim down by any means ...

Aonishiki, who is 182cm in height and weighs a relatively modest 136kg, discovered sumo as a boy, practicing judo and ...

Ukrainian wrestler Aonishiki ... alone in April 2022 at age 18 to escape the Russian invasion of his homeland. He then refined his skills at the sumo club of Kansai University in Suita, Osaka ...

But rarer, nonexistent even, is a theatrical work about sumo wrestling. Now, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” is transporting Off Broadway audiences at the Public Theater to an intimate sumo ...

I’ll be training with two of the world’s heaviest sumo wrestlers- Yama and Rami - alongside Igor Voitenko. With just five hours of training, we’ll step into the ring for a full sumo match to see if we ...