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 ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- When Japanese police arrested three sumo wrestlers and their stable master on Thursday over allegations they beat a 17-year-old wrestler to death, the case sent shockwaves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 1st the Reiwa era started in Japan. Eleven days later, on May 12th, the May grand sumo tournament opened at the center of the sumo universe, the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. All the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...