The top division of Sumo is called the makuuchi, which includes five ranks. The top rank is yokozuna, which translates to ...

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 ...

TOKYO — 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” — or ...

The world’s most prestigious sumo tournament will be held in Britain for the first time since 1991. The Grand Sumo Tournament will see more than 40 of Japan’s elite wrestlers compete across five days ...

ROSS MIHARA: Fast start. Hakuho has the yokozuna in trouble, but he bends a knee. DETROW: The Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament comes to an end this weekend. Just ahead of the rise of a new yokozuna, or ...

When Lisa Sanaye Dring was growing up in Hawaii, she occasionally saw sumo wrestling on television at home. “I thought it was cool,” she recalls, “but I wasn’t moved by it.” Then in 2013, Sanaye Dring ...