Through his journey, theatergoers learn about sumo wrestling’s origins ... fight sequences that required months of physical training. Michael Hisamoto trains in the ring. Dring and the show ...

David Shih, Ahmad Kamal, Red Concepción , Scott Keiji Takeda, Michael Hisamoto, and Earl T. Kim. Photo by Emma Zordan Sumo is ...

to March 20), in which six men live and train together at an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, their intertwined stories told through the fighting they do. The excellent play folds into its ...

Along with Houston Texans quarterback CJ Stroud, Parsons went up against Japanese sumo wrestlers for some offseason training. Two reps took place and unsurprisingly, Parsons went down in the first ...

A legislator yesterday called for more support for female athletes and five female sumo wrestlers who are to compete in an ...

A look into the larger world of sumo is what playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring puts before us in her new play "SUMO," at the ...

The student government at University of California–Davis apologized for bringing a sumo wrestling fat suit on ... might well be for cultural competency training for ASUCD itself.” ...

Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play, and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...

Los Angeles Rams defensive back Quentin Lake is having a blast in Japan. The 26-year-old already met up with Los Angeles Dodgers manage Dave Roberts and now is trying out sumo wrestling and swordplay ...

By Jesse Green Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are ... In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy based on competitive achievement is brutally ...

Once again, a scandal of violence has emerged in Japan’s professional sumo world. Any form of malicious and mean violence or bullying must have no place in sports training whatsoever.