Former sumo grand champion Harumafuji has been charged with ... expected to be fined rather than tried in court. Japan's sumo world has been hit by scandals involving violence, mafia links and ...

She gives a rare, brief smile as she walks off the mat. "You can't be scared," says the 17 year old sumo world champion. "If you're scared you won't win." Samuel Bergstrom As a child ...

Ishikawa Prefecture native Onosato from the Nishonoseki stable, who competed for the March championship until the final day, is one such rising star, sporting disheveled hair as he hasn't even been ...

The event was the U.S. Sumo Federation’s national championships, which gives adult gold medalists the option (but not full expenses) to compete at the world tournament Sept. 7-8 in Kwidzyn ...

Kirishima, who won the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, had a chance to be promoted to yokozuna if he secured back-to-back victories. Terunofuji won his last championship in the Summer Grand Sumo ...

Traditionally, Sumo is exclusively practiced by men. In Grand – Sumo, women are not even allowed to step inside the dohyo, or holy ring. 20 year old Rio Hasegawa lives and practices Sumo in Tokyo. One ...

After winning his first championship at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on July 23 ... inside and outside the ring in the disciplined world of the humble sport. He retired in 2010 after injuring ...

There was a decidedly international flavor to the 29th All Japan Women’s Sumo Championships, which took place Sunday in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, where two-time defending world champion Ivanna ...

Set to debut in the second-tier juryo division at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament from Sunday, promising Ukrainian wrestler ...

Yokozuna Grand Champion Terunofuji will be absent from competition for the second straight Grand Sumo Tournament in Japan, as ...

Hakkaku also stressed the need to root out violence in the sumo world. After the workshop ... and shouldn't be used by a grand champion. Sumo fans have mixed views. One said that a Yokozuna ...