Sumo's governing body in Japan has demoted one of the sport's greatest champions over repeated violence by his 22-year-old protege. The Japan Sumo Association (JSA) gave a salary cut to 38-year-old ...

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 is the first Japanese competitor to reach the top ...

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From Japanese American director Erik Shira, Venice plays host to a documentary with religious reverence for its athletes. The ...

Retired yokozuna Hakuho, considered the greatest grand champion in the history of the sport, will leave the sumo world after ...

A Ukrainian refugee has become the first person from his country to win an elite-level sumo tournament. Danylo Yavhusishyn - known by his sumo ring name Aonishiki - arrived in Japan as an 18-year-old ...

Liberty County deputies are searching for Yorlan Rafael Reyes, a 31-year-old inmate who escaped custody after a hospital visit in Kingwood early Saturday morning. Liberty County deputies search for ...

The Japan Center Malls and the Japantown Merchants Association invite you to join us for the 6th Annual Sumo Champions Exhibition in the Japantown Peace Plaza. Sumo is an ancient Japanese tradition ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wrestling and a former grand champion, has died. He was 54. He was the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the level of “yokozuna” — ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one ...