It’s a fitting description for this peninsula that stretches from the island of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost ... unique lifeforms evolving after the islands broke off from the mainland sometime ...

Photo: the world's largest amphibian, the aptly-named Japanese giant salamander. While most of Daisen-Oki’s terrain is found on the mainland, the Oki Islands ... to be practiced by the locals. “Bull ...

His great-grandfather was a sumo wrestler in Japan and his nephew ... Because when we first started going to the mainland (in the 1990s), it was not easy for us.“ Seventy-year-old Donahoo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stablemaster Naruto and a person at Yakushiji Temple know each other, and sumo wrestlers have been visiting since 2019. It is said that people can feel calm by copying sutras. Japanese original ...

Once again, a scandal of violence has emerged in Japan’s professional sumo world. Any form of malicious and mean violence or bullying must have no place in sports training whatsoever.

The ceremonies are complete, the celebrations are done, and now it’s time for sumo’s newest yokozuna to get down to the daily task of leading Japan’s national sport. Hoshoryu’s promotion ...

A scandal has hit the sumo world days before the first tournament with spectators since January opens on July 19. The Japan Sumo Association on July 13 said a stablemaster had repeatedly attacked ...

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan, George Glass, said on Thursday that Washington will "undoubtedly" have to ask Japan for an increase in its financial contribution ...