I lived with Sumo Wrestlers for a day in Tokyo. This 24-hour challenge offered an interesting insight into what sumo ...

Hakuho, the Mongolian-born former grand champion widely regarded as sumo wrestling's greatest competitor, has resigned from the Japan Sumo Association following a dispute with the sport's governing ...

Japan has lodged a protest against a French newspaper cartoon depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs fighting in front of the country’s crippled nuclear power plant and linking it to Tokyo ...

The cartoon showed wrestlers in front of the country’s crippled nuclear power plant, linking it to Tokyo’s successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics Advertisement oop Story continues below ...

Japanese sumo wrestler Onosato (C) and his Nishonoseki stable master (R) attend the "yokozuna," or grand champion, promotion ceremony in Ami Town, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, May 28, 2025.

Onosato, the new sumo grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms (421 pounds) and he is the first Japanese competitor to reach the top rank of yokozuna since 2017.

Last week Hakuho Sho left the Japan Sumo Association (JSA), the sport's governing body, the latest in a series of resignations among yokozuna, the highest-ranking wrestlers. Now, only four of the ...

Tokyo, Sep 12 (IANS) The Japanese government Thursday said it will lodge a formal complaint about a cartoon published in a French weekly newspaper depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in ...

Japan voiced anger Thursday over cartoons published in a French newspaper that took aim at the decision to award the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo despite the ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima.

When Japanese sumo wrestler Takuya Saito retired from the sport at 32 and began jobhunting, he had no professional experience and didn't even know how to use a computer. Athletes in many sports ...

Japan protested a French newspaper cartoon depicting sumo wrestlers with extra limbs fighting in front of the country's crippled nuclear power plant and linking it to Tokyo's successful bid to ...

Japan is to formally complain about a cartoon that appeared in a French weekly newspaper showing sumo wrestlers with extra limbs in front of the Fukushima nuclear plant and linking this to the ...