My kids have been fortunate to enjoy the benefits ... My youngest wrote about getting in the ring with a 400-pound sumo wrestler in Japan: "I was only 8, I obviously lost." Read next ...

The promotion was made official at the Japan Sumo Association's meeting on wrestler rankings for the next grand sumo tournament scheduled for March and an extraordinary meeting of its board of ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sumo grand champion Terunofuji ... will pursue a coaching career having already gained Japanese citizenship, a requirement for wrestlers to remain in the JSA after they finish ...

TOKYO: Sumo is facing a potential chasm at the top ... He told reporters that he was retiring to train young wrestlers after "a tough 14 years" in the ring. "I've given everything but at this ...

Known as the bad boy of sumo, he frequently clashed with the sport's authorities and was once punished for playing in a ...

The Mongolian-born 33-year-old has been the only top-ranked sumo for more than three years, and only 73 wrestlers have reached ... recent yokozuna was born in Japan. Of the others, five were ...

John Gunning, a former amateur sumo wrestler who commentates on the sport in English on Japanese television, says its centuries-old history and traditions make it unique. “It’s always a tightr ...