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 ...

A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) ...

SHIMANTO, Kochi >> Last month, a shrine in Shikoku held a special wrestling tournament where local children entered their own critters to compete. The unique spider sumo tournament was held at Ichijo ...

JJ Jones never made it to the sumo wrestling tournament in 2007, but the flyer for the tournament stayed on his wall and served as inspiration for him to pursue sumo wrestling a few years later.

The couple dined at Asakusa Sumo Stable ANNEX, where they watched a traditional sumo wrestling match during dinner. Their international trip follows reports that Trudeau has been making an effort to ...

London — The world of professional sumo wrestling stepped outside of Japan for only the second time in its centuries-long history on Wednesday night, as fighters clashed on a specially constructed ...

Japan's national sport, sumo wrestling, has long been sullied by episodes of violent hazing, drug use, a shortage of local recruits and sagging popularity. But Japanese wrestling has been shaken to ...

Dinner and a show at Asakusa Sumo Club means a hearty meal fit for a 350-pound wrestler and a chance to enter the ring yourself. The venue is inside the Asakusa Rockza Building in Asakusa, a ...

A scandal ripping through the traditional Japanese sport of sumo appeared to spread further Wednesday with a report saying up to 40 wrestlers had been involved in bout fixing. Allegations against 14 ...

The world’s most prestigious sumo tournament will be held in Britain for the first time since 1991. The Grand Sumo Tournament will see more than 40 of Japan’s elite wrestlers compete across five days ...