The show explores the gritty underbelly of Japan's professional sumo wrestling tradition, following a juvenile delinquent who becomes a sumo apprentice. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Netflix is ...
The Grand Sumo Tournament is a big deal – here's what it's like to see it live - In London for the first time in 35 years, this event is a real showcase of sumo’s majesty ...
At Madison Square Garden, New Yorkers got a rare look at an ancient Japanese sport, cheering and booing as though they were watching a Yankees game. A pared-down format of sumo wrestling was on ...
Japanese baseball, tennis, golf and soccer players have made the transition to North American fields, courts, courses and pitches. But the country’s centuries-old national sport, sumo wrestling, still ...
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 ...
A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony. Tournaments begin with a line of burly men wearing little more than ...