Japanese sumo wrestler Onosato is aiming for the sport's top spot of yokozuna -- or grand champion -- after clinching the ...
A look into the larger world of sumo is what playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring puts before us in her new play "SUMO," at the ...
Los Angeles Rams defensive back Quentin Lake is having a blast in Japan. The 26-year-old already met up with Los Angeles ...
With the ranks of prospective sumo wrestlers thinning out, the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping the height and weight requirements from its recruitment test ...
A legislator yesterday called for more support for female athletes and five female sumo wrestlers who are to compete in an ...
The restaurant is hard to miss, what with its exterior decorated with images of sumo wrestlers, called rikishi in Japanese. Things are even more unique in the interior, with the center of the ...
One wrestler leaves the heya in shame; another apparently kills himself. A gay subplot, daring in the context of Japanese sumo, is so delicately and abstractly handled it’s hard to follow.
Through his journey, theatergoers learn about sumo wrestling’s origins, its spiritual connections to Shinto, the historical Japanese religion, and other aspects of its lore. But the real ...
“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 ...