Former yokozuna Taiho retires from Japan Sumo Association

Former yokozuna Taiho retires from Japan Sumo Association

TOKYO, Japan - Former grand sumo champion Taiho (R) shakes hand with Russian grappler Roho during a ceremony marking his retirement from the Japan Sumo Association at a Tokyo hotel on May 28. He will be assigned as head of the Sumo Museum on May 29.

Former yokozuna Taiho retires from Japan Sumo Association

Former yokozuna Taiho retires from Japan Sumo Association

TOKYO, Japan - Former grand sumo champion Taiho (R) shakes hand with Russian grappler Roho during a ceremony marking his retirement from the Japan Sumo Association at a Tokyo hotel on May 28. He will be assigned as head of the Sumo Museum on May 29. (Kyodo)

Yokozuna slickhead fish

Yokozuna slickhead fish

Photo taken Feb. 17, 2021, shows a specimen of yokozuna slickhead deep-sea fish on display at Tokai University Marine Science Museum in Shizuoka, central Japan. The 1.1-meter-long bizarre-looking fish, named after the top rank in sumo wrestling, was discovered at a depth of about 2,100 meters in Suruga Bay off Shizuoka Prefecture in October 2018.

Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

A mock wedding ceremony is held on Dec. 2, 2018, at a sumo museum in Katsuragi, a western Japan city considered the birthplace of sumo due to a reference in the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history, completed in the early 700s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

A mock wedding ceremony is held on Dec. 2, 2018, at a sumo museum in Katsuragi, a western Japan city considered the birthplace of sumo due to a reference in the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history, completed in the early 700s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo