Asashoryu was known as the bad boy of sumo and he was forced to retire in 2010 after breaking a man's nose in a drunken brawl outside a nightclub. He frequently clashed with the sport's ...

Sumo avoided having a hole at the top for the ... He was forced to retire in 2010 after breaking a man's nose in a drunken brawl outside a Tokyo nightclub. Hoshoryu said he grew up thinking ...

It was Asashoryu who encouraged the young man to come to Japan. However, Hoshoryu didn’t immediately start sumo at a high school in Chiba he attended because he was intimidated by the idea of ...

Akira Kato is not a yes-man, even to the greatest sumo wrestler of all time, yokozuna Hakuho, whom he admits to disliking, although he served as his hairdresser and informal adviser. But Kato ...

Akebono was raised in Hawaii and became the first foreign-born sumo star to reach the level of "yokozuna," or grand champion Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

OITA,Japan (Kyodo) -- The popularity of traditional Japanese sumo has seen a welcome rise in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the Eastern European country three years ago.

A historic fight between sumo wrestlers and the Megumi firefighting gang is dramatized in this play, which ends in a free-for-all on stage. Kabuki actor Kataoka Ainosuke is our guide.