A pair of sumo superstars are the first pair of competitors announced by USA Sumo to take part in a tournament in Hot Springs ...

Sumo wrestler Hoshoryu, second from left, tosses beans into the air for luck during this year’s setsubun ceremony in Naritasan Shinsho-ji temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday. Hoshoryu, who ...

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo’s newest grand champion strode onto the public stage on Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport’s highest rank.

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport's highest rank. Mongolian-born ...

Tokyo: Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport's highest rank.

In front of around 3,500 fans gathered at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, sumo wrestling's newest grand champion, or 'yokozuna', receives the ancient sport's highest rank. Hoshoryu, a 25-year-old Mongolian-born ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday ... "Mongolians do so well because their national wrestling style, Bokh, is very similar," Rob ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday ... "Mongolians do so well because their national wrestling style, Bokh, is very similar," Rob Ó Néill, ...