Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Public Theater are set to bring the intense world of sumo wrestling to the stage with the New ...

He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan’s most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the ...

Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while ...

A Mongolian sumo ... country. Japan's only new champion during that period, Kisenosato, held the rank for less than two years. "Mongolians do so well because their national wrestling style ...

Hoshoryu came to Japan to study wrestling at Nippon Sport Science University Kahiwa High School in Chiba Prefecture in 2015. There, he switched to the sumo team and made his professional debut at ...

During Trump's 2019 state visit to Japan, Abe took Trump to a sumo wrestling match and arranged for him to be ... Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo. AP writer Didi Tang contributed to this report.

Taro Akebono, the first foreign-born yokozuna and later a mixed martial artist and pro wrestler, died of heart failure in early April at a hospital near Tokyo ... left the Japan Sumo Association ...

One stable, Arashio in central Tokyo, has a large bay window ... but if there are fewer and fewer Japanese people who feel that way, sumo wrestling will also disappear,” she said.

The motherland of the annual ekiden, a century-old relay race that attracts millions of spectators each time, it’s safe to say that Japan is ... acclaimed for its sumo wrestling.