One week after resigning from the Japan Sumo Association, retired yokozuna great Hakuho said he isn't leaving the sport entirely but wants to take sumo global and support it outside the JSA. At a news ...

Retired yokozuna Hakuho, considered the greatest grand champion in the history of the sport, will leave the sumo world after finding less success as a stablemaster, who now goes by the name Miyagino.

In professional sumo, the release of every new banzuke — or ranking list — signals the imminent arrival of the next official tournament. For the March 2025 meet in Osaka, the two most striking changes ...

Like many young men in Mongolia, Nanjidsurch Davaajamts grew up on a remote sheep farm dreaming of a career peculiar to a neighboring country: sumo wrestling. “I went to my first sumo competition when ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It's a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are ...