My kids have been fortunate to enjoy the benefits ... But the highlight of their trip was learning about sumo wrestling. In Nara, near Kyoto and Osaka, we encountered sacred deer that bowed ...

F or a show in which the majority of actors spend most of their time wearing only mawashi, Sumo is extremely well dressed. Directed by Ralph B. Peña, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s explor ...

After all, injuries and illnesses had left him a shell of himself as a sumo wrestler who was once seen as a future yokozuna. “Frankly speaking, I had not expected to earn that many wins,” the ...

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

The student government at University of California–Davis apologized for bringing a sumo wrestling fat suit on ... had brought the suits on campus so kids could put them on and wrestle each ...

Ryuichi Yamamoto, who goes by the name Yama and competed as a professional sumo wrestler in Japan, has started teaching sumo classes at the Arnold Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Martial Arts Studio.

But rarer, nonexistent even, is a theatrical work about sumo wrestling. Now, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” is transporting Off Broadway audiences at the Public Theater to an intimate sumo ...

Following after-hour scandals during the recent summer tournament, sumo wrestlers have been given 16 commandments for safe behavior if they wish to go out on the town. The rules, set by the ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...