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 ...

In the mid-19th century, Japan was relatively isolated from the Western world. Most Americans knew almost nothing about the ...

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

Yet when it does, Britain holds a peculiar appeal. This was only the second five-day sumo tournament ever held abroad; the ...

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 ...

THEY certainly didn’t look like the usual tourists exploring London’s busy streets. A group of 30st sumo wrestlers got plenty of heads turning this week as they drank pints of Guinness, recreated the ...

Think of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado meets Big Daddy from all-in wrestling THEY certainly didn’t look like the usual tourists exploring London’s busy streets. A group of 30st sumo wrestlers got ...

We’re just three months away from Hiroshi Tanahashi's final match. Tanahashi is going to be busy in the month of November/December as he’ll team with NJPW World Television Champion El Phantasmo to ...

I took a shot at being a Sumo wrestler for a day (Picture: Belinda Jiao) ‘Wipe me!’ orders a sumo wrestler, as we’re treated to an unobstructed view of his post-s*** bare bum squatting over a hole in ...

The ring sits in the centre of the hall, with a temple roof suspended above it, and a round LED screen above that There are not many sports that can keep an audience enraptured through 45 minutes of ...