OSAKA—Ozeki Onosato captured the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in a playoff on March 23 at Edion Arena Osaka and improved his chances of promotion to yokozuna. Onosato and maegashira No. 4 ...

Sumo, as a result of Terunofuji’s recent retirement, now also has its own elite group of 12.

With the ranks of prospective sumo wrestlers thinning out, the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping the height and weight requirements from its recruitment test ...

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. With some 3,000 ...

Japanese boxer Masamichi Yabuki claimed the IBF world flyweight championship with a 12th-round technical knockout of Mexico's Angel Ayala on Saturday. The 32-year-old Yabuki, who holds the IBF light ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani threw his first bullpen session in a month on Saturday, but the reigning NL MVP still has plenty of work to do before he takes the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

TOKYO(AFP-Jiji) – Japanese authorities issued a mid-level warning Sunday for a volcano in the southwestern Kyushu region, telling people not to approach and that an eruption “may occur”. There was, ...