Onosato Daiki was the first Japanese man to win the title in decades, as Mongolia continues to dominate the sport.

Onosato, 24, is the first Japanese sumo wrestler to achieve the rank of yokozuna, or grand champion, in years, and he's vowed ...

The sport has recently been dominated by Mongolians and prior to Onosato, six of the previous seven yokozunas have been from ...

By Victor Mather Sumo is Japan’s national sport, steeped in hundreds of years of history and tradition. But Japanese wrestlers no longer dominate sumo. So there was a sigh of relief in local ...

With more than 1,500 years of history, sumo wrestling is one of Japan’s oldest and most sacred sports. But in recent years, it has been facing lower enrolment and a high attrition rate.

Sumo's origins date back more than 1,000 years, and Japan is the only country where it is contested on a professional level. The sport is highly regimented with many wrestlers living in communal ...

One of them was an American (Hawaii’s Mushashimaru), one was Japanese and the rest were Mongolians. Mongolian wrestlers have dominated the upper ranks of grand sumo throughout the 2000s.

The wrestler, whose real name is Daiki Nakamura, becomes first Japan-born wrestler to reach rank of yokozuna since 2017 Sumo ...