A look into the larger world of sumo is what playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring puts before us in her new play "SUMO," at the ...

The wrestlers are only ranked and moved to certain divisions based on their victory and loss record. The sumo tournaments unfold in Japan's four major cities, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. The ...

The Japanese ex-sumo known as Gocchanko – real name Kodai Ota, whose schtick is wrestling passersby on the street – has been performing his busking feats before growing crowds. Gocchanko ...

Yokozuna was a Samoan portraying a Japanese Sumo Wrestler Banzai is a Japanese battle cry Nia Jax now uses the move as a tribute to Yokozuna One of the most dominant stars of the New Generation Era, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Image via Getty/Tomohiro Ohsumi) Cheese Naan is selling out like crazy in Japan, and it has everything to do with Monster ... media account to thank the game for the extra business. Memes, jokes, and ...

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 ...

Osamu Nishimura, a prominent Japanese wrestler, has died at 53 after battling esophageal cancer. Despite his late-stage diagnosis, he continued wrestling until December 2024. Nishimura was also a ...

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 ...