PARIS – This weekend Paris is hosting a spectacular demonstration of Japan’s national sport, but an unheralded star of a major two-day sumo tournament will be 100% French: the 200 kilograms of ...

When Onosato and Hoshoryu et al stepped onto the clay at London’s Royal Albert Hall in October 2025, it was the first time in three decades that the Japan Sumo Association had held an exhibition in ...

Yokozuna Onosato. (Photo courtesy of the Japan Sumo Association)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Onosato and Ukrainian-born ozeki Aonishiki have withdrawn from the upcoming Summer Grand Sumo ...

In Japanese professional sumo, Yokozuna Grand Champion Onosato and Ozeki Champion Aonishiki will be absent from the May Grand Sumo Tournament scheduled to kick off on Sunday. The Japan Sumo ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

In ancient China, women’s sumo was a popular form of entertainment in which participants wore minimal clothing that exposed their arms, backs, navels and lower abdomens, drawing significant attention.

At the cheer, two extremely large men on centre stage inside the Nutrien Western Development Centre, lunged at each other, arms slapping at each other’s bodies as each man attempted to get a secure ...

Five years ago, Sumo was relentlessly expanding into a UK publishing powerhouse. After years of successful work-for-hire and co-development work on titles from Dead Island to Sackboy: A Big Adventure, ...

Sumo and Sushi makes its San Diego debut at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Friday. (Photo by Aubrie LeGault) It’s up to you whether the delicacy or the sport takes precedence when Sumo and Sushi comes to San ...

The 21-year-old, who is close to becoming the first European yokozuna or grand champion in Japan, is motivated by messages from his war-torn home The swish of feet on clay and sand has a soothing, ...

With its notably sweet flesh and easy-to-peel skin, Sumo Citrus changed how Americans think about mandarins. Here are the four citrus varieties growers are betting on next. Citrus fans know that the ...

Less than four years after fleeing the 2022 Russian invasion and landing in Japan, Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavhusishyn stands poised to become the first-ever European-born wrestler to be named ...