Sumo avoided having a hole at the top for the first time in over 30 years Monday when the Mongolian Hoshoryu was recommended for promotion to the highest rank of yokozuna. The ancient Japanese sport ...

He has missed all or part of 24 meets in total, including 13 of his 21 as a yokozuna. No wrestler has had as many ups and downs in their career as Terunofuji, who reached the second-highest rank ...

Tokyo, Jan. 17 (Jiji Press)--Mongolian-born yokozuna grand champion Terunofuji ... "In this tournament, I found myself no longer able to wrestle as I wanted." After winning his 10th title in ...

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He has four wins and one loss after the opening five days. If he fails, sumo will have no yokozuna for the first time since March 1993, when Hawaiian-born Akebono made his debut at the rank.

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mongolian ozeki Hoshoryu earned his second Emperor's Cup and promotion to yokozuna Sunday by winning ... needed a tiebreaker after No. 3 maegashira Oho defeated No ...

Tokyo, Jan. 16 (Jiji Press)--Yokozuna sumo grand champion Terunofuji plans to retire, after claiming 10 tournament titles in the sport's makuuchi top division, people familiar with the matter said ...

With Hoshoryu's promotion, the tournament in March will narrowly avoid having no yokozuna on its ranking list, something that last happened in 1993.

The Japan Sumo Association will hold an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors on Wednesday to discuss Hoshoryu's promotion to the highest rank of Yokozuna Grand Champion. The association ...

The reverend at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families in her sermon Tuesday. Bishop ...

In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic and Republican and Independent families ...