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Japan's national sport -- hundreds of years old and steeped in tradition -- has long been a source of fascination outside the country.
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Dozens of bawling Japanese babies faced off Saturday in a traditional "crying sumo" ritual believed to bring the infants good health.
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If the phrase “sumo wrestler” calls to mind a hefty Asian man in a loincloth, Valeria and Diana Dall’Olio, a mother-daughter sumo wrestling team...
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Sumo began a new tournament in front of a live audience Sunday, despite a steady rise in coronavirus infections, with fans voicing both joy...
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Twenty sumo wrestlers flexed their muscles outside the ring to rescue a woman from drowning in a Tokyo river on Thursday, according to local...
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The big men of Japanese sumo met their match Sunday in the form of an even bigger star: Donald Trump. Trump was the first...
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President Donald Trump will be ringside Sunday for Tokyo’s big sumo tournament, but if he hopes his longtime love of US-style professional wrestling will...
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The only Japanese-born grand champion or “yokozuna” in sumo tearfully insisted he had “no regrets” as he announced his retirement Wednesday after a disastrous...
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Their physique may be a far cry from the celebrated bulk of Japan’s mammoth fighters, but athletes like Walter Rivas are beginning to make...
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A female mayor at the centre of a fierce debate over allowing women into the sumo ring vowed Thursday never to back down as...