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Onosato, 24, has been promoted to yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. In terms of speed, it was a record-breaking rise to the pinnacle of the sport, s･･･ ...

The art of Japan’s Edo period is undeniably beautiful, influencing creators across the centuries. Japanese artist Katsushika ...

The sport has recently been dominated by Mongolians and prior to Onosato, six of the previous seven yokozunas have been from ...

Onosato Daiki became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in ...

Their strength lies in patience and the ancestral skills they bring to the workbench every day, working in the spirit of ...

but the sport welcomed its first foreign wrestler – a US-born Japanese-American – in 1934. And women were not even allowed to watch sumo bouts in the Edo period (1603 to 1868). But rather than ...

Indeed, some of those traditions stretch back hundreds of years and call back to either the Edo Period or the imperial ... which also decreased the public’s interest in sumo. However, this period ...

Bookended by All-Star Sumo ... period of time, just a few years, I think that's how you get better each year, is to learn from what you did this year." While this was not the first time sumo ...

One of the most famous and most traditional practices in Japan is the art of Sumo, a competitive form of wrestling ... The sport has changed little since the Edo Period with wrestlers still sporting ...

Examples include the Sumo Room, where huge monochrome sumo wrestlers painted by artist ... entire wall has been covered with a mural of an Edo-era castle. The guest room at Hotel Groove Shinjuku ...