As he did during his successful sumo career, Kotooshu never quit when things got difficult and kept strongly moving forward in life outside the dohyo ... in the Mongolian wrestling world ...

We investigate how rikishi perceive the sumo ring, a circle 4.55 meters across. Along the way we highlight the work that goes into constructing it and how rikishi grip the clay with their toes.

Former ozeki great Kaio, now stablemaster Asakayama, continued his wrestling career until he was nearly 40 because he could still dominate junior wrestlers in the dohyo. Seeing that ...

Sumo wrestling is a sport fought between two wrestlers, or rikishi, in a circular ring called a dohyo. The objective is simple: push or throw your opponent out of the ring or force them to touch ...

The sumo wrestling world lost an all-time great and ... Famously, Akebono would perform the traditional yokozuna dance, the "dohyo-iri," at the 1998 Winter Olympics ceremony in Nagano.