There are many rules that govern sumo wrestling, the Japanese sport that operates on the principle of pushing another man down or out of a circular clay ring. But what epitomises wrestlers, in Japan ...

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As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality ...

Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki is only 21 but has moved just one step from the top rank of Japan’s national sport ...

A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) ...

London — The world of professional sumo wrestling stepped outside of Japan for only the second time in its centuries-long history on Wednesday night, as fighters clashed on a specially constructed ...

Aonishiki Arata, 21, left Ukraine just after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of his country and has risen very quickly ...

Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki has become the first from his country to win an elite-level sumo championship ...