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Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament

Ukrainian wrester sekiwake Aonishiki (back) beats yokozuna Hoshoryu to win the Emperor's Cup in a playoff on the final day of the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 23, 2025.

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Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament

Ukrainian wrester sekiwake Aonishiki (R) beats yokozuna Hoshoryu to win the Emperor's Cup in a playoff on the final day of the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 23, 2025.

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Sumo: New Year Grand Sumo Tournament

Ozeki Hoshoryu is pictured after beating rank-and-file wrester Oho (bottom) in a three-way championship playoff on the final day of the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan arena in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2025, earning his second Emperor's Cup.

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Sumo: New Year Grand Sumo Tournament

Ozeki Hoshoryu (front) is pictured after beating rank-and-file wrester Oho (back) in a three-way championship playoff on the final day of the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan arena in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2025, earning his second Emperor's Cup.

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Disgraced former sumo coach dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2007 shows head sumo stablemaster Tokitsukaze (L) surrounded by the press when an urgent board meeting of the Japan Sumo Association was convened at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan following the death of a junior wrester. Tokitsukaze, whose real name was Junichi Yamamoto, has died at the age of 64 after suffering from lung cancer, a JSA source said Aug. 12, 2014. He was fired by the JSA for his involvement in the death and was given a five-year prison sentence in the manslaughter case.

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Supersize me?

TOKYO, Japan - Yamamotoyama, the heaviest Japanese sumo wrestler, who weighs 258 kilograms, shows off a seat specially created by McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. for sumo wrestlers in its Asakusabashi restaurant on Sept. 6, 2009. Yamamotoyama enjoyed eating a hamburger while sitting in the seat, saying, ''This is helpful.'' The 25-year-old wrester said he prefers McDonald's to the traditional vegetable and meat ''chanko'' soup for sumo wrestlers.

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Sumo association decides to dismiss arrested Russian wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Kitanoumi, chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, speaks at a news conference at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Aug. 21 after the JSA's decision at an emergency executive board meeting to boot out top-division Russian wrestler Wakanoho, who was arrested on Aug. 18 on suspicion of possessing marijuana. Wakanoho is the first active wrester to be dismissed in sumo's long history.

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Kyokutenho gets engaged to Japanese woman

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrester Kyokutenho, 31, announces his engagement to Keiko Saito, 32, in Tokyo on May 23.

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Bulgarian sumo wrester Kotooshu presented with apron

TOKYO, Japan - Bulgarian ozeki Kotooshu (L) looks at a sumo wrestler's ''kesho mawashi'' ceremonial apron presented to him by the European Union at the office of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from L) on April 24. At right is European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and second from right is Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel.

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Mongolian sumo wrestler appointed goodwill tourism envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrester Kyokushuzan, flanked by Ultnasan Ulambayar (L), Mongolia's deputy minister of infrastructure, and Mongolian Ambassador to Japan Zamba Batjargal (R), poses for photos at the Mongolian Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after being appointed goodwill ambassador to Japan. Kyokushuzan, whose real name is Davaa Batbayar, debuted in Japanese professional sumo in 1992.

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Bulgarian sumo wrester Kotooshu presented with apron

TOKYO, Japan - Bulgarian ozeki Kotooshu (L) looks at a sumo wrestler's ''kesho mawashi'' ceremonial apron presented to him by the European Union at the office of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from L) on April 24. At right is European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and second from right is Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. (Kyodo)

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Kyokutenho gets engaged to Japanese woman

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrester Kyokutenho, 31, announces his engagement to Keiko Saito, 32, in Tokyo on May 23. (Kyodo)

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Sumo association decides to dismiss arrested Russian wrestler

TOKYO, Japan - Kitanoumi, chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, speaks at a news conference at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Aug. 21 after the JSA's decision at an emergency executive board meeting to boot out top-division Russian wrestler Wakanoho, who was arrested on Aug. 18 on suspicion of possessing marijuana. Wakanoho is the first active wrester to be dismissed in sumo's long history. (Kyodo)

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Mongolian sumo wrestler appointed goodwill tourism envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrester Kyokushuzan, flanked by Ultnasan Ulambayar (L), Mongolia's deputy minister of infrastructure, and Mongolian Ambassador to Japan Zamba Batjargal (R), poses for photos at the Mongolian Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 13 after being appointed goodwill ambassador to Japan. Kyokushuzan, whose real name is Davaa Batbayar, debuted in Japanese professional sumo in 1992. (Kyodo)

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Ex-ozeki Takanonami dies at 43

File photo shows ozeki Takanonami holding a trophy after winning the Winter Grand Sumo Tournament in January 1996. The wrester, who achieved sumo's second-highest rank and whose real name was Tadahiro Namioka, died of acute cardiac failure on June 20, 2015, at the age of 43. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disgraced former sumo coach dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2007 shows head sumo stablemaster Tokitsukaze (L) surrounded by the press when an urgent board meeting of the Japan Sumo Association was convened at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan following the death of a junior wrester. Tokitsukaze, whose real name was Junichi Yamamoto, has died at the age of 64 after suffering from lung cancer, a JSA source said Aug. 12, 2014. He was fired by the JSA for his involvement in the death and was given a five-year prison sentence in the manslaughter case. (Kyodo)

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Sumo: Juryo wrestler Ura employs another rare technique

Ura (L) defeats Amakaze with a "tasukizori" reverse backward body drop in the juryo division on the 13th day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2017, the first time that a wrester has used that technique in the second-tier division or the top makuuchi division since the Japan Sumo Association began to release winning techniques in 1955. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo