OSAKA—Three days after winning the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament, Kirishima was promoted to ozeki here on March 25, returning to the sport's second highest-rank after nearly two years. A messenger from ...

Sumo wrestling has returned to London for the first time in over three decades, kicking off a five-day Grand Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The highly anticipated return of Japan's ...

A Ukrainian who fled his homeland following Russia's full-scale invasion has become the first from his country to win an elite-level sumo championship in Japan. Danilo Yavhushyshyn, who now competes ...

Kirishima receives the Emperor's Cup from Japan Sumo Association President Hakkaku, left, after winning the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Edion Arena Osaka on March 22, 2026. (Kyodo) OSAKA (Kyodo) - ...

Newcomers prepare for preliminary bouts at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka on March 10, 2026. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Despite sumo's growing popularity, the number of people who took its ...

On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an earthen stage roughly two feet high and two dozen feet wide. The ...

Learn coding in Python, Go and Rust from Serdar Yegulalp, software dev specialist and senior writer at InfoWorld. Python 3.15 has introduced a feature to allow "lazy" module imports, where an imported ...

World Elite Sumo (WES), the first independent professional sumo league established outside of Japan in 800 years, announced on Wednesday the first nine competitors for its inaugural North American ...

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The head of an advisory body to the Japan Sumo Association has expressed high expectations for third-highest rank Sekiwake Kirishima. Kirishima is certain to return to sumo's second-highest rank of ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts from March 18, Day11 of the Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka.

All of professional sumo’s six bimonthly tournaments carry the same weight. Eight wins in Tokyo in May are of equal value to eight wins in Fukuoka in November, and an Emperor’s Cup triumph in Osaka in ...