Every year, shinto shrines throughout Japan hold the Nakizumō festival, where sumo wrestlers taunt babies. The first one to cry is declared the winner. The most well-known Nakizumō festival is ...
but this one is an all-star lineup (you won’t see sumo this good unless you go to Japan), with 20 championships among the eight wrestlers, and there are no weight classes so you may see a 200-pounder ...
Babies cry while held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during Nakizumo or a baby-crying sumo contest, where two wrestlers hold a baby each and a referee makes faces and loud noises to make them cry and ...
Some 200 babies participated in a "crying sumo" event held at a temple here on June 2, as people prayed for their healthy ...
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Women fight for respect in Japan’s sumo rings
Sumo wrestling in Japan is among the world’s oldest sports, dating back at least 1,500 years. The rules are simple: Square ...
The Atlantic City area has hosted a plethora of sports competitions in the last 50 years and now you can add Sumo Wrestling ...
In early October at the university’s sumo gym, Yamanaka was engaged in ... His opponent was Danylo Yavhusishin, 18, a baby-faced wrestler who is 180 centimeters tall and weighs 120 kilograms.
You would think that the biggest challenge for an actor to play a sumo wrestler would be the actual wrestling. But for Shono Hayama, star of new Disney+ Hotstar Japanese series Sumo Do ...
In addition to countless training fights and hours upon hours spent repeating the same fundamental drills for hundreds of repetitions each morning, sumo wrestlers — particularly in the lower ...
Chanko nabe – sumo wrestler nabe – is a healthy, hearty, calorific version that gets its name because it’s eaten in vast quantities by sumo wrestlers to help them gain (or maintain ...
The Bleacher Report crew, with whom the duo have been working since their draft night coverage, captured several bouts of Parsons grappling with a sumo wrestler. At first, the former first-rounder ...
The children aged 6 months to 18 months, dressed in baby clothes and "hachimaki" headbands, competed while in the arms of sumo wrestlers including Shoketsu and Kaorufuji, both fourth-tier ...