Japan's top sumo wrestlers will roll into London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday evening for the start of a five-day ...

Good news for any aspiring sumo wrestlers who are on the shorter side: height and weight no longer matter. The Japan Sumo Association announced in late September that potential sumo wrestlers would no ...

Tokyo — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 421 pounds and he is the first Japanese competitor to reach the ...

TOKYO — Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wrestling and a former grand champion, has died. He was 54. He was the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the level of yokozuna — or grand ...

Happy days are here again for Japan's traditional sport, with overseas fans packing sumo arenas, turning the centuries-old ritual into a must-see global spectacle. Riding this wave of popularity, the ...

Hawaiian-born Akebono was the first foreigner to win the highest ranking in Japan's national sport, sumo wrestling. He died in Tokyo this month, age 54. Sumo wrestling fans are mourning a former ...

Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from ...

During a recent stop at Burger King near Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, I noticed a new, but puzzling, option. A Baby Body Burger? At first glance, I wasn’t sure I read it correctly, but there it ...

Danylo Yavhusishyn fled the war in his native Ukraine to follow his dream of becoming a professional sumo wrestler in Japan ...