Scandals and high-profile resignations of former stars have 'sullied' image of Japan's national sport – but could its latest star turn the tide?

There is no obvious Japanese wrestler emerging to ... inch Asashoryu doll that the Japan Sumo Assn. has brought out as part of a line of promotional action figures. “It looks like me, but ...

TOKYO Japan’s national sport of sumo ejected a top wrestler and a coach on Sunday and slapped punishments on nearly two dozen others for their involvement in gambling run by organized crime.

It’s easy to see how the imposing figures of the heaviest ... Professional sumo in Japan has seen many foreign-born wrestlers take to the ring from around the world. However, a foreign rikishi ...

Hakuho, widely regarded as sumo wrestling’s greatest grand champion, has resigned from the Japan Sumo Association after a disagreement. Having retired from wrestling in 2021, he plans to establish a ...

Onosato's promotion will set up an instant rivalry with Mongolia-born Hoshoryu, who is the other wrestler in Japan to hold the yokozuna title. The Japanese news agency Kyodo said the two sumo ...

With more than 1,500 years of history, sumo wrestling is one of Japan’s oldest and most sacred ... the membership figures fell from 1,484 in 2003 to just 655 in 2023. A group of boys warming ...

Japanese sumo wrestlers get an unlikely gadget to help their pudgy fingers dial some digits. Can a person's hands be too big for a conventional cell phone? If you're a sumo wrestler, maybe so. The ...

Then, as now, things haven't been entirely easy for him in Japan. Sumo wrestlers live in communal training stables where all aspects of their daily lives from meals to what they wear are dictated ...

One wrestler leaves the heya in shame; another apparently kills himself. A gay subplot, daring in the context of Japanese sumo, is so delicately ... cultural figures forever intertwined with ...