Sekiwake Kirishima and No. 10 maegashira Gonoyama both survived scares to stay at the top of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu took a step back from the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament title race after falling to his second loss on ...

Fresh off his crowd-pleasing championship at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament, Hoshoryu expressed excitement and disbelief ...

Ozeki Terunofuji is making a historic comeback, rebounding from injuries, disease and a plunge to sumo’s second-lowest division to stand one step from promotion to yokozuna.

The fervor around Onosato, perhaps not incidentally, has coincided with the remarkable electoral success of Japan’s far right ...

A former coach of Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki is cheering on his former student ahead of the opening of the Spring ...

Japan’s titans of the ring live and train at roughly 40 sumo stables, with the majority located in Tokyo. A visit to one of ...

OSAKA - Yokozuna Onosato withdrew from the ongoing Spring Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday after losing his first three bouts of the meet at Edion Arena Osaka. The 25-year-old grand champion also ...

SUMO wrestling, Japan’s centuries‑old sport of thunderous collisions and ritual pageantry, is enjoying an unlikely boom far ...

WrestleMania has been the endgame for every wrestler that has ever entered World Wrestling Entertainment. It has been WWE’s ...

On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an earthen stage roughly two feet high and two dozen feet wide. The ...

Amid a wave of reproachful articles and reports, as well as emotionally charged fan responses online, few people appear to be ...