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 ...

Japanese police for the first time ever sought criminal prosecutions of nine sumo wrestlers and sports figures in a damaging scandal over illegal gambling and yakuza mob ties. | World News ...

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. The ...

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.

Professional sumo in Japan has seen many foreign-born wrestlers take to the ring from around the world. However, a foreign rikishi will be expected to join a stable and abide by the same rules as ...

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 ...

Japan’s sumo wrestling evolves to capture new blood, change impressions of scandal and brutality. ... the membership figures fell from 1,484 in 2003 to just 655 in 2023.

Potential sumo wrestlers will no longer have to reach minimum height and weight requirements as the sport struggles to recruit new wrestlers, according to The Japan Sumo Association.

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 ...

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are little exposed to that ancient Japanese discipline an opportunity to learn about it in an atmosphere of authenticity and respect.

Wrestling under the name Osunaarashi, which translates as 'Great Sandstorm,' the 21-year-old Abdelrahman Ahmed Shalan is the first professional sumo wrestler from the African continent. Being an ...