The latest major show from New Japan Pro Wrestling, Sakura Genesis will determine the top champions in the promotion. David ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- When Japanese police arrested three sumo wrestlers and their stable master on Thursday over allegations they beat a 17-year-old wrestler to death, the case sent shockwaves ...

Mongolian sumo grand champion Hakuho and his bride Sayoko Wada tied the knot on Sunday (February 21) in a ceremony held at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. Courtesy of Reuters Man Deported to El ...

But Japanese citizenship is necessary if a wrestler wishes to become a stablemaster, a requirement added in 1976 by the Japan Sumo Association ... in the Mongolian wrestling world, had opposed ...

Joel and Nish travel to Tokyo to meet Japan's professional sumo wrestlers before heading to the remote Oki Islands to take part in a tournament in the birthplace of Sumo.

Tokyo’s Asakusa neighborhood is the most traditional ... But what if you want to further immerse yourself in the classical culture of Japan, partaking of Japanese cuisine and also watching very large ...

The Japan Sumo Association on Feb ... The decision was made at a special board meeting held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo. Hakuho, now a stablemaster who goes by the name Miyagino, was demoted ...

A remote island in western Japan is a spiritual home for sumo wrestling. For hundreds of years, a competition in Shimane Prefecture's Okinoshima town has honored a local deity. Among more than 200 ...

The spring tournament was returning to Osaka after taking place in Tokyo last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. What's more, sumo fans were ... in northeastern Japan to win a top division ...

For decades, one of sumo’s most unique selling points has been its accessibility. Contrary to foreign media’s ubiquitous framing of Japan’s national sport as a “secret world ...