With 10 wrestlers still alive in the title race after day 10, the Summer Basho remains wide open — even as injuries threaten ...

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Yokozuna Grand Champion Hoshoryu will pull out of the May Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo from Monday due to a leg injury.

The iconic venue in the British capital is hosting the Grand Sumo Tournament — the roughly 1,500-year-old sport's most important competition — for the second time, drawing more than 44 professional ...

In Japanese professional sumo, Yokozuna Grand Champion Onosato and Ozeki Champion Aonishiki will be absent from the May Grand ...

TOKYO — As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality. But she has quickly run up against a tradition that may be ...

LONDON--London bids a fond farewell to Japan's finest sumo wrestlers on Sunday at the end of their packed-out, five-day Grand ...

Ukrainian Aonishiki is filled with gratitude toward his Japanese “family” who helped him to enter the sumo world, win his ...

After more than three decades away, the ancient sport of sumo made a triumphant return to London’s Royal Albert Hall, filling the sold-out venue with the sound of stomps, shouts and centuries of ...

London — The world of professional sumo wrestling stepped outside of Japan for only the second time in its centuries-long history on Wednesday night, as fighters clashed on a specially constructed ...