The association’s stance toward the training culture fraught with problems should be questioned. In 2007, a young sumo wrestler died from severe beatings by his stablemaster and fellow wrestlers ...

Sumo Wrestling is Japan’s National Sport and you’ll find grand sumo tournaments held 6 times a year – three of them are held in Tokyo, so Japan’s capital is the place to come if you want ...

Sumo training sessions also became dramatically ... Fuse returned to sumo wrestling after he turned 40, taking part in competitions for corporate work teams as an amateur while serving as an ...

6 o'clock in the morning training." There are six professional sumo tournaments a year, all held in Japan. Promotion through the ranks comes from winning more than you lose, and a wrestler wins by ...

Sumo wrestling's greatest champion ... to run his own stable of wrestlers in the future. He has said that training wrestlers would be a way of showing his gratitude to the sport.

In an exclusive interview with India Today, Hetal Dave, India's first female sumo wrestler, shared her remarkable journey in a male-dominated sport. From her early training in judo to becoming a ...

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

London’s Royal Albert Hall, the gilded concert venue known for an annual “Rule Britannia” singalong, is preparing to host a different kind of spectacle: Sumo wrestling. Camera shutters ...