Image The referee, Taiga Iizuka, left, wraps a mawashi, or traditional sumo loincloth’s belt, for Justin Kwan, one of the competitors. Membership in the club is “mostly based on vibes,” Mr ...

New sumo grand champion Onosato performs his first ring-entering ceremony Friday at Tokyo's Meiji Jingu shrine to mark his ...

shirtless and dressed in a sumo-style mawashi, banging on traditional Japanese drums with wild intensity. As the camera panned across the arena during the opening ceremony of RIZIN's Tokyo event ...

LONDON--In a famed concert hall here where divas and Shakespearean actors are the norm, massive wrestlers clad in mawashi will take center stage far from their homeland. The Japan Sumo ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fernanda Pereira da Costa has always been a big girl. When she was younger, children used to poke fun and call her "fatty," but today such name-calling wouldn't bother her in the ...

TOKYO — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he’s Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms (421 pounds) and he is the first ...

The Japan Sumo Association launched a new era in the sport on May 28, making Onosato's promotion official to the highest rank as the 75th yokozuna. And just as he vowed to be the best when ...

By Victor Mather Sumo is Japan’s national sport, steeped in hundreds of years of history and tradition. But Japanese wrestlers no longer dominate sumo. So there was a sigh of relief in local ...

Tokyo — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 421 pounds and he is the first Japanese competitor to ...

Onosato, whose real name is Daiki Nakamura, is only 24 and was promoted Wednesday to sumo's top rank by the Japan Sumo Association. Onosato was promoted by winning last week's Summer Grand Sumo ...