Travel writer David Placher took in a sumo wrestling match and visited the Daikoku car experience while visiting Tokyo.

TOKYO — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms (421 pounds) and he is the first Japanese ...

When that wrapped, well … Parsons was in Tokyo with a group of sumo wrestlers. And, if you know Parsons, you know that he is just too competitive to not give it a shot.

Onosato, 24, is the first Japanese sumo wrestler to achieve the rank of yokozuna, or grand champion, in years, and he's vowed not to "disgrace the title." ...

During a sumo wrestling match in Japan, 18-year-old Shikimori Tomosaburo was officiating a match between Teranishi and Sumiyoshi when he got a little caught up in the two moving across the ring.

DETROW: The Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament comes to an end this weekend. Just ahead of the rise of a new yokozuna, or grand champion, we reached out to NHK sumo announcer Ross Mihara.

Hawaii-born Akebono, the first foreign-born sumo wrestler to reach the level of "yokozuna," or grand champion, in Japan, has died, his family said. He was 54.

Sumo wrestling legend Akebono has died at the age of 54. REUTERS “I had to tend to personal matters that needed to be done prior to publicly announcing my husband’s death,” she said.