It is difficult not to feel slightly insulted when your editor calls suggesting you should try sumo wrestling. I had hoped ...

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is also a highly-ranked wrestler in Japan. Ukraine has a very strong tradition in Olympic wrestling. Its last gold-medal winner was Zhan Beleniuk in the Greco-Roman category at the Tokyo Games, which ...

A 21-Year-Old Ukrainian-Born Sumo Wrestler Is Surging to the Top of the Rankings in Japan TOKYO (AP) — Danilo Yavhushyshyn left his native Ukraine 3 1/2 years ago — just after Russia launched a ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 Japan as one of the top sumo wrestlers ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, who is slated to arrive in Japan on Monday, visited the Asian country three times during his first four-year term through 2021, having built a close relationship with the ...

Aonishiki, who is now part of the highly regimented world of sumo, talked mostly about his eating and training habits, learning Japanese, and being exposed to sumo as a 6-year-old in his hometown of ...

The Grand Sumo Tournament is rumbling London's iconic Royal Albert Hall in a rare foreign foray for Japan's centuries-old ...