Sumo wrestling from Japan is among the world’s oldest sports, dating back at least 1,500 years. The rules are simple: square off with an opponent, in a ring lined with sand, then try to push the other ...

This sumo wrestling is not the cliched images of 600-pound men in nothing but top knots and loin cloths. ... Women are barred from even touching the wrestling ring at a pro match.

Back in Japan, the 6-foot-1, 280-pound Hanada rose to the highest amateur ranks of sumo wrestling by refusing to be pushed around in the ring. He’s taking that same approach to the football f… ...

Featured photo: David Shih and Scott Keiji Takeda in SUMO at The Public Theater. Photo by Joan Marcus. Sumo is brutal on the body. It consumes its wrestlers’ lives, dictating where they live ...

Professional sumo in Japan has seen many foreign-born wrestlers take to the ring from around the world. However, a foreign rikishi will be expected to join a stable and abide by the same rules as ...

DETROW: Mihara is a veteran sumo wrestling play-by-play announcer for the Japanese public broadcaster. ... DETROW: The top sumo superstars find themselves in the ring 15 times in 15 days.

A woman invaded a sumo ring — a sacred arena from which females are banned — in Tokyo during a major tournament, domestic media said on Thursday, then was pulled down by a referee and one of ...

The stage is transformed into a ring. The actors are barely clothed in the traditional costume. And the thundering action is right in your face in the thrilling new play “Sumo.” ...

Wrestlers begin a sumo match with their fists on the floor. Then, the mountains collide. Both men throw absolute death at each other — grabs and strikes, hands latched on to the other’s belt. Suddenly ...

The play—a co-production of the Ma-Yi Theater Company, whose primary mission to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers, and the La Jolla Playhouse where Sumo was ...

Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for The New York Times, wrote in his review that “Peña’s staging, mostly within a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of ...

Wendy Altschuler has traveled around the world with her husband and three sons. Her kids agree that Japan has been their favorite destination. Sumo wrestling was the highlight of their trip. My ...