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

Sumo wrestling fans were disappointed and outraged ... The Nishonoseki sumo stable is run by former sumo grand champion Kisenosato, who became the 72nd yokozuna in the sport's 400-year history ...

Hot Springs will welcome the heaviest sumo wrestler in the world and the widest sumo wrestler in the world to compete in the ...

But she became captivated by the traditional male-dominated sport because a small wrestler ... at the city-run Kizukuri Junior High School. “I hope to see more women take up sumo as they see ...

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by ...

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

Follow three female sumo wrestlers as they compete at the highest level at the Women's Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. The film tracks each athlete's individual journey, from strength and ...

who was born to a former wrestler father and a former judoka mother. He began participating in sumo when he was a second-grader in elementary school. He went on to win the Junior Sumo World ...

When Japanese police arrested three sumo wrestlers and their stable master on Thursday over allegations they beat a 17-year-old wrestler to death, the case sent shockwaves across a country that links ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...

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 ...