Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country

A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ...
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A major sumo wrestling tournament comes to a close this weekend

ROSS MIHARA: Fast start. Hakuho has the yokozuna in trouble, but he bends a knee. DETROW: The Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament comes to an end this weekend. Just ahead of the rise of a new yokozuna, or ...
USA Today

Watch Eric Trump, sumo wrestler go toe-to-toe in Japan: 'Almost had him!'

Eric Trump and a sumo wrestler went toe-to-toe, and belly to collared shirt, during the businessman's recent trip to Japan, according to a post on his Instagram. While in Tokyo over the Labor Day ...