On Wednesday, the Japanese news outlet Daily Shincho released photos from a party held by the prestigious Nishonoseki sumo stable in November of 2022. A video taken of the incident but not shared ...

Sumo elders of the Isegahama group met in Osaka on March 8 to discuss what to do with the Miyagino stable from April following the scandal, in which Hokuseiho repeatedly assaulted two wrestlers.

Sumo elder Oguruma, the JSA director in charge ... and three peers in his Kokonoe stable, as well as one wrestler in the Tomozuna stable, tested positive for the coronavirus in the testing of ...

Ozeki Onosato overcame a couple of upset losses down the home stretch of the spring tournament this month to claim his third ...

David Shih, Ahmad Kamal, Red Concepción , Scott Keiji Takeda, Michael Hisamoto, and Earl T. Kim. Photo by Emma Zordan Sumo is ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- When Japanese police arrested three sumo wrestlers and their stable master on Thursday over allegations they beat a 17-year-old wrestler to death, the case sent shockwaves ...

A look into the larger world of sumo is what playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring puts before us in her new play "SUMO," at the ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...

By Jesse Green Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are ... In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy based on competitive achievement is brutally ...