Grand champions Onosato and Hoshoryu are set to return from injury, while Ukrainian star Aonishiki will begin his battle for ...
Japan’s traditional sport of sumo is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, with regular tournaments drawing sellout crowds for ...
NAGOYA--After pulling out of six meets in a row, yokozuna Hakuho clinched his 45th career championship at the Nagoya Grand ...
When Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister last year, questions were raised on whether she would step ...
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Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony. Tournaments begin with a line of burly men wearing little more than ...
Makuuchi division rankings for the July 12-26 Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament at IG Arena, released Monday by the Japan Sumo Association ...
Highlights: • Ukrainian wrestler Aonishiki shocks fans with a one-handed throw in London • First Grand Sumo Tournament in the city since 1991 sells out instantly • Mongolian yokozuna Hoshoryu claims ...
The iconic venue in the British capital is hosting the Grand Sumo Tournament — the roughly 1,500-year-old sport's most important competition — for the second time, drawing more than 44 professional ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Japan's elite sumo wrestlers slapped, thrust and flipped their way through the first evening of their five-day exhibition tournament in London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, to ...
A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony. Tournaments begin with a line of burly men wearing little more than ...
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