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 ...

Credit: SBS Sumo wrestling is widely considered as a traditional sport of Japan, though it has struggled for popularity recently. In the amateur circuit, sumo is embraced by people of all genders ...

Fading public interest and a declining number of wrestlers is weighing heavily on the traditional sport of sumo. However, siblings and relatives of active and past competitors entering the dohyo ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN)-- Asashoryu stands at the pinnacle of sumo wrestling like a colossus. But the 330-lbs Mongolian, sumo's most successful ever grand champion, has not been able to rise above the scandals and ...

"And for the wrestlers, they're the best ... "When you say the word sumo, everyone in France knows it represents traditional Japanese culture," he said. "There was a time when it was shown on ...

Ohtori spent his two-decade sumo career ... of Japan’s traditional sport, but now he is fighting to entertain a different crowd: Curious tourists. He is one of six ex-wrestlers putting on ...