The New York Times

For the Actors of ‘Sumo,’ Learning Lines Was Just the Half of It

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn. Credit... Supported by By Emmanuel Morgan Photographs and ...
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Surviving 24 hours with the world’s biggest sumo wrestlers

I spent 24 hours training inside a real sumo wrestling stable alongside some of the heaviest athletes in the world. From ...
Hartford Courant

Japan’s first female leader faces a taboo over entering the male-only sumo ring

TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she’ll break another barrier: the taboo barring women from the sumo ...
Mankato Free Press

Japan's first female leader faces a taboo over entering the male-only sumo ring

Barring women from the ring has been criticized for decades In 1978, a female labor ministry bureaucrat, Mayumi Moriyama, protested after the sumo association prevented a girl who had won a local ...