Don’t miss the full story, whose reporting from Reeno Hashimoto and Koji Ueda at The Associated Press is the basis of this AI-assisted article. While professional sumo wrestling in Japan maintains its 1,500-year-old tradition of excluding women from the ...

The recent Japan Venus Sumo festival in Tachikawa highlighted the sport's domestic popularity while focusing attention on the global rise of the

At the Royal Albert Hall, one of England’s pre-eminent concert halls, this week, the Grand Sumo Tournament is being held outside of Japan for just the second time in history — the first was at this same oval hall in the English capital in 1991. It is a grand, spectacular venue for the giants of an ancient sport.

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains what sumo wrestling is, why they eat up to 10,000 calories a day and why the Grand Sumo Tournament is in London.

TOKYO (AP) — 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 the traditional ring, known as the ...

As professional sumo is held outside of Japan for just the second time ever, Alex Pattle reports on a transportive night of wrestling and ritual