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

Novak Djokovic is known for his non-traditional training methods, but he took things to a new extreme in Tokyo on Monday, when he tried his hand at sumo wrestling ... in Tokyo's Japan Open ...

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

He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan’s most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the ...

TOKYO– Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wrestling and a former grand ... of “yokozuna” — or grand champion — in Japan. “It is with sadness that we announce Akebono ...

It's been another year of powerful performances and sell-out crowds in sumo arenas across ... The Georgian Ambassador to Japan presented a medal to Tochinoshin at a party in Tokyo.

Even more questionable is that the Japan Sumo Association ... emeritus at the University of Tokyo, made a set of proposals concerning the future of professional sumo. Responding to the association ...

The Japan Sumo Association on Feb. 23 demoted retired ... The decision was made at a special board meeting held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo. Hakuho, now a stablemaster who goes by the name Miyagino ...

Touching down in Tokyo is like landing on a different ... thanks to the pound performing well against the Japanese yen. SUMO WRESTLING Sumo wrestling as a spectator sport is seeing growing ...

The boxing fraternity turns its head to Tokyo, Japan, as two of the country's finest warriors, Kenshiro Teraji and Seigo Yuri ...

Sumo will stage a tournament in Paris for the first time in over three decades next year in a push to expand the ancient sport beyond Japan, organizers said Sunday ... JSA chairman Hakkaku told ...