After all, injuries and illnesses had left him a shell of himself as a sumo wrestler who was once seen as a future yokozuna. “Frankly speaking, I had not expected to earn that many wins,” the ...

F or a show in which the majority of actors spend most of their time wearing only mawashi, Sumo is extremely well dressed. Directed by Ralph B. Peña, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s explor ...

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

A sumo wrestling champion now teaches the sport in Arnold. The Show Me Sumo Club is a small class taught by Daichi Yamamoto.

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 ...

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

The senior wrestler also hit their buttocks with a mawashi (sumo belt) tied into the shape of a log as well as brought a flame close to their bodies by igniting insecticide spray. It was also ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, observes a Peace Corps volunteer and a State Department ...

We meet Ukrainian Ivanna Berezovska, a female sumo wrestler who trains at a university club in Fukuoka Prefecture, and Indonesian Harsono, a professional who takes care of traditional Japanese ...

The only professional sumo wrestler ever to emerge from these isles is Nathan John Strange from Kent. Inspired by watching sumo on TV, Strange trained with Syd Hoare before moving to Japan.