Onosato Daiki became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in ...

After three years of work, the New York Sumo Club held its first ... telling them that inside the ring, “we are samurai” and follow the Bushido traditional code of conduct of military warriors ...

More than 100 Japanese babies faced off Sunday in a traditional "crying sumo" ring, an annual ceremony believed to bring infants good health. More than 100 babies faced off in the sumo ring on ...

TOKYO, July 7 (Reuters) - Ohtori spent his two-decade sumo career struggling for wins so he could to move up the ranks of Japan's traditional ... whose full ring name, Koto-ohtori, means "harp ...

But once she stepped into the sumo ring, she quickly discovered that wasn ... competing in pro sumo or participating in the sport’s traditional lifestyle that requires wrestlers to live ...

Swapping his mawashi — the traditional loincloth sumo wrestlers wear — for shoulder ... a sumo wrestler can achieve inside the dohyo (ring). He already was an amateur Yokozuna, in addition ...

Q: Can you describe some of the traditional sumo elements that you ... match ritual in which both competitors bless the dohyō (sumo ring) with movement done in the sankyo position [the starting ...

Masakatsu will make his sumo debut under the ring name of Kotonowaka when he ... before opting for a traditional kanji for “waka” with more strokes and the katakana for “no” that looks ...

Instead of racking up wins in the dohyo and ascending in the traditional sumo, Hidetora Hanada wants ... who went by the ring name of Wakanohana as a yokozuna. Both Hanadas have a kanji for ...