LONDON - London bids a fond farewell to Japan's finest sumo wrestlers on Sunday at the end of their packed-out, five-day Grand Sumo Tournament, the ancient sport's first foray abroad in 34 years and ...

Britain's reigning sumo champion has said the Japanese sport is "surging" across the UK as the Grand Sumo Tournament comes to London. Will Bowles, who competes with Doncaster Sumo Club, said the ...

In a spectacle blending sport and ritual, more than 40 elite sumo wrestlers from Japan have touched down in London today as the city prepares to host the Grand Sumo Tournament — only the second time ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — Danilo Yavhushyshyn left his native Ukraine 3 1/2 years ago — just after Russia launched a full-scale invasion — and has risen rapidly to stardom in ...

BANGKOK/TOKYO -- Sumo's most decorated champion is sounding the alarm over the future of Japan's national sport, even as he pushes to take it global. Hakuho, the former yokozuna (grand champion) with ...

PHOENIX — The Sumo + Sushi tour is coming to Arizona for the first time and it will pack out Chandler’s Rawhide Event Center throughout Halloween weekend. Arizonans will have the opportunity to learn ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It's a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are ...

Eric Trump, the president’s son, squared off against a high-ranking sumo wrestler when he visited Japan this weekend. The 41-year-old Trump posted a short video to social media of him in the ring with ...

Eric Trump and a sumo wrestler went toe-to-toe, and belly to collared shirt, during the businessman's recent trip to Japan, according to a post on his Instagram. While in Tokyo over the Labor Day ...

TOKYO -- After nearly 40 seconds of intense grappling in a sumo training bout, Yarden Yatkovski, 27, throws down a wrestler ranked in the makushita division, the third highest of the six divisions in ...

Nicholas will see his family only occasionally, until he has achieved his full potential A HEAVYWEIGHT teenager is heading to Japan — to become a sumo wrestler. Nineteen-stone Nicholas Tarasenko, 15, ...

The man widely considered to be the greatest sumo wrestler in history has resigned, compounding a bruising few years for Japan's ancient sport. Last week Hakuho Sho left the Japan Sumo Association ...