Newly minted yokozuna Hoshoryu suffered another upset loss Thursday at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament, succumbing to a ...

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

It was near there, at the foot of Mt. Nijo in Katsuragi City, where I had another quest for my boys — to learn about Japan's oldest sport: Sumo wrestling. Katsuragi is the origin of sumo ...

Your Purple Pants Podcast Pitstop duo, @BriceZiZyah and @TheRealBCamhi, is back with an all-new recap of The Amazing Race ...

A sumo wrestling champion now teaches the sport in Arnold. The Show Me Sumo Club is a small class taught by Daichi Yamamoto.

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

Hoshoryu came to Japan to study wrestling at Nippon Sport Science University Kahiwa High School in Chiba Prefecture in 2015. There, he switched to the sumo team and made his professional debut at ...

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

Leg 2 of The Amazing Race 37 started off well for Ernest and Bridget Cato. In Wednesday's episode, the father and daughter ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...

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 ...

For decades, one of sumo’s most unique selling points has been its accessibility. Contrary to foreign media’s ubiquitous framing of Japan’s national sport as a “secret world ...