In sumo, you lose if anything other than the soles of your feet touch the ground or if you go outside of the straw ring. If you slap someone silly to get them down or out, that’s just fine.

“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 ...

RYUICHI Yamamoto weighs 480 pounds. Takayuki Ichihara weighs 360. After a hearty breakfast, I weigh about as much as a medium-sized sack of Purina Kitten Chow. Yet here I am about to begin my sumo … ...

In “Sumo,” at the Public Theater in Manhattan, David Shih, foreground, plays a high-ranking sumo wrestler and Scott Keiji Takeda portrays a quick-learning newcomer.

Netflix will give a May launch to “Sanctuary,” an eight-episode sports drama series set in the specialized world of Japanese sumo wrestling.. Produced by the Slowtide company for the streamer ...

Sumo wrestling from Japan is among the world’s oldest sports, dating back at least 1,500 years. The rules are simple: square off with an opponent, in a ring lined with sand, then try to push the other ...

“Ready to rumble” is a wrestling and boxing cliche, but Saturday’s Sumo Night of the Giants 2000 has a better-than-average chance to set the ground shaking. Caesars Tahoe in Stateline is the ...

TOKYO—The Japan Sumo Association apologized after an official ordered women to leave a sumo-wrestling ring where they were giving first aid to a man with a brain hemorrhage. The incident, in ...

In March this year, young chef Juwel Khan was laid off from Tao Town, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Subsequently, instead of switching careers, he started his own online shop, Oshi Sushis ...

Splash Brothers do sumo: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson feel the power of Japanese wrestling legend Hakuhō Shō In turn, Sho showed off his basketball skills as well ...