TOKYO — Sumo wrestling, one of Japan’s oldest and most hallowed sports, has all kinds of inviolable rituals. The wrestlers must wear their hair in carefully coifed topknots. Before every match ...

Sumo wrestling is one of Japan's most popular sports and it's deeply embedded in Shinto religious principles. According to sumo tradition, women cannot enter the ring, believed to be sacred ...

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 ...

Foreigners are now dominating what was once among Japan’s purest and most sacred cultural bastions: sumo wrestling. The change has become a metaphor for a reluctantly globalizing Japan.

TOKYO—The Japan Sumo Association apologized after an official ordered women to leave a sumo-wrestling ring where they were giving first aid to a man with a brain hemorrhage. The incident, in ...

The Japan Sumo Association was forced to apologize after female medics were told to leave a dohyo, or sumo wrestling ring, where they were giving treatment to a stricken local official.

There is really no easy way to connect the dots linking the two sports Liz Seward has chosen to pursue in her life. And the sports couldn’t be more different. When Seward, 25, graduated from ...

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.

Sumo is a sport that is steeped in tradition so it shouldn’t be a surprise that making the Dohyo, or sumo wrestling ring, is a painstaking process that. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

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… ...