A remote island in western Japan is a spiritual home for sumo wrestling. For hundreds of years, a competition in Shimane Prefecture's Okinoshima town has honored a local deity. Among more than 200 ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...

Red Concepción may not have imagined that they’d end up in the ring when dreaming of being an actor in the Philippines, but fate has an interesting way of propelling us forward. Concepción now ...