NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

Early last month, the Japan Sumo Association announced the cancelation of the May tournament due to the spread of the new coronavirus. Backstories looks at how the pandemic has affected Japan's ...

Pubcaster NHK has axed its live coverage of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament, which begins on Sunday, due to public outrage over 65 wrestlers’ connection to an illegal baseball betting syndicate with ...

NHK President announced to cancel Sumo Telecast NHK News NHK to cancel Sumo series in Nagoya, Quite anomalous - 47NEWS NHK president Shigeo Fukuji announced at a press conference that NHK is ...

ROSS MIHARA: Fast start. Hakuho has the yokozuna in trouble, but he bends a knee. DETROW: The Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament comes to an end this weekend. Just ahead of the rise of a new yokozuna, or ...

TOKYO — Pubcaster NHK won a Tokyo High Court battle on Tuesday against two men who had claimed the Broadcast Law that stipulates payments of monthly fees violated their constitutional rights. NHK is ...

The 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament kicked off on March 10th in the western city of Osaka. With the retirement of a big star Yokozuna Kisenosato in the New Year Tournament in January, people were ...

On May 1st the Reiwa era started in Japan. Eleven days later, on May 12th, the May grand sumo tournament opened at the center of the sumo universe, the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. All the wrestlers ...

The chairman of the Japan Sumo Association pledged on December 21st to eradicate violence among sumo wrestlers in the wake of an assault scandal that ended the career of Yokozuna grand champion, ...

The Japan Sumo Association, which has been rocked by the gambling scandal, was dealt more blows last week. On Tuesday, NHK decided not to provide live television coverage of the 15-day Nagoya Grand ...