A group of Australian sumo wrestlers is set to compete in the Oceania Sumo Championships, aiming to secure a place on the ...

Ahead of the Oceania Sumo Championship to be held in Sydney on April 27, we spoke with participating wrestlers and others involved in the sport. Among them were the family of the president of the ...

Today's play features 2 sumo wrestlers as protagonists! Kabuki actor Kataoka Ainosuke talks about sumo in the Edo period and ...

Instead of racking up wins in the dohyo and ascending in the traditional ... was born to a former wrestler father and a former judoka mother. He began participating in sumo when he was a second ...

Japanese sumo wrestling is a traditional sport that has been around for centuries. It takes massive strength, agility and technique to be a sumo wrestler. You can even watch a practice session if ...

Currently, a professional sumo wrestler must be at least 167 centimeters ... The change comes as the traditional sport struggles to secure young men partly due to the declining birthrate in ...

A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt ...

Follow three female sumo wrestlers as they compete at the highest level at the Women's Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. The film tracks each athlete's individual journey, from strength and ...

Grenda and two other Polish wrestlers arrived on the island two ... Yoshiyama Osamu chairs Oki Ohabakai, a group seeking to keep traditional sumo alive. He told the Polish rikishi about the ...

If you like your entertainment big and brawny, the Sumo Hall Hirakuza show in Osaka is offering a large dose of Japanese ...

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

Tokyo’s Asakusa neighborhood is the most traditional part of the city ... The restaurant is hard to miss, what with its exterior decorated with images of sumo wrestlers, called rikishi in Japanese.