A five-day event in October will be the Japan Sumo Association’s first competition in Britain in more than three decades. By ...

Ladies, it’s time to test your hidden blindfolded sumo skills at the annual Fuigo Women’s Blindfolded Sumo which in ...

Two Netflix series have introduced audiences to the intricacies of the sport, which has roots stretching back 1,500 years.

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

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sumo wrestling will return to London for the first time in 34 years in 2025 as the historic Royal Albert ...

As the national sport of Japan, sumo wrestling has a long and intricate history. The sport involves wrestlers, called rikishi, attempting to force each other out of a circular ring or make their ...

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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 clicked ...

It may once have been unthinkable to have foreign sumo wrestlers, but the sport welcomed its first foreign wrestler – a US-born Japanese-American – in 1934. And women were not even allowed to ...

Otowayama was referring to the dark blue jacket worn by not only stablemasters but also clerical and other staff members of the Japan Sumo Association. He implied that younger wrestlers should ...