Tokyo (AFP) – 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 ...

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 ...

Top yokozuna, or grand champion, sumo wrestler Terunofuji takes part in traditional Shinto ceremony at the ... If he fails, sumo would have no yokozuna for the first time since March 1993, when ...

The Mongolian-born 33-year-old has struggled with injuries and withdrew from the ongoing New Year Grand ... sumo will have no yokozuna for the first time since March 1993, when Hawaiian-born ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sumo grand champion Terunofuji ... when Hawaiian-born Akebono debuted as a yokozuna. A foreign-born wrestler has continuously held the yokozuna rank since then, but that streak ...

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 ...

(Mainichi/Kenji Ikai) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Yokozuna Terunofuji's retirement on Friday left sumo with no active grand champion for the ... occupied the exalted rank. Akebono was the first of seven ...

The Japan Sumo Association has announced that Yokozuna Grand Champion Terunofuji is retiring from competition. The association said it has approved the 33-year-old wrestler from Mongolia becoming ...

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, after ...