(Mainichi/Kota Yoshida) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Makuuchi division rankings for the March 9-23 Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Edion Arena Osaka, released Tuesday by the Japan Sumo Association (previous ...

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 ...

Takayasu (facing camera) battles yokozuna Hoshoryu on Day 8 of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Edion ... (4-4), fighting as a No. 17 maegashira. Japan to host foreign ministerial talks with ...

who fled the war in Ukraine and came to Japan in April 2022, enters the top division after nine tournaments, equaling the fastest pace of promotion from the bottom tier since 1958, when sumo adopted ...

Newly promoted Yokozuna Hoshoryu has lost his first bout in the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka. This is the first time in 30 years that a new grand champion has suffered a loss on the ...

When it comes to the 2025 Osaka Grand Sumo Tournament, one question overshadows all others. How will Hoshoryu — the 74th yokozuna — do in his debut at the sport’s highest rank? If recent ...

The owner of the Japanese restaurant chain is looking at expansion opportunities throughout the Puget Sound region. Sumo Japanese Restaurant plans to open a Lynnwood location in the former Shari ...

He talked to the media on March 28, a day after defeating rank-and-filer Takayasu in a playoff on the final day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament ... When the Great East Japan Earthquake ...

Thirteen sumo wrestlers from the Naruto stable, who will compete in the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in ... people can feel calm by copying sutras. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

Takerufuji, 24, pushed down Gonoyama to end the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Edion Arena Osaka with a 13-2 record. “I am relieved that I was able to wrestle on the dohyo on the final day ...