The promotion was made official at the Japan Sumo Association's meeting on wrestler rankings for the next grand sumo tournament scheduled for March and an extraordinary meeting of its board of ...

Sumo is walking a 'tightrope' as it prepares to stage events outside Japan for the first time in 20 years while also trying ...

The Mongolian-born 33-year-old has been the only top-ranked sumo for more than three years ... Only one of the seven most recent yokozuna was born in Japan. Of the others, five were born in ...