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Japan's 'crying baby sumo' festival returns after pandemic

April 22, 2023 - 4:07pm

Dozens of bawling Japanese babies faced off Saturday in a traditional "crying sumo" ritual believed to bring the infants...

Arts and Culture

A Japanese reaches top sumo rank for 1st time in 19 years

By Jim Armstrong | January 25, 2017 - 3:45pm

A Japanese sumo wrestler has reached the pinnacle of the country's ancient sport for the first time in almost two decade...

Sports

Sumo fun to the max at Riverbanks

January 14, 2014 - 12:00am

Inflatable Sumo Wrestling takes fun to a whole new level at the Amphitheater of Riverbanks Center in Marikina City.

Health And Family

Half-Pinoy sumo star to visit Manila

By Joaquin M. Henson | September 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Half-Filipino, half-Japanese sumo wrestler Takayasu Akira has never visited his mother Bebelita Reblingca Bernadas’...

Sports

Scandals expose venerable sumo's shady underbelly

July 15, 2010 - 1:16pm

Sumo is more than a sport to Japan. It's like a religion, a bastion of traditional culture and a matter of national pride. Wrestlers aren't just athletes — they are icons, role models and, often, larger-than-life...

Losing weight the easy way

By Boy Abunda | May 8, 2006 - 12:00am

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so goes a saying. In Japan where the old traditional sport sumo is popular, wrestlers are fed heavily and can weigh as much as 580 pounds. Seeing two heavyweights wrestling...

Entertainment