January 27, 2021
No. 1 maegashira Daieisho put himself into position for his first makuuchi division title with a victory.Ozeki Shodai made it a little easier by losing.
Daieisho defeated No. 4 maegashira Tamawas...
The International Olympic Committee has estimated that about 6,000 athletes will participate in the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics, half the initial prediction before the event was postponed,...
The New Year Grand Sumo Tournament began Sunday at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, amid a new state of emergency declared due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.
PCR tests conducted by the Japan...
Swimmer Rikako Ikee, who has come back to competition after battling leukemia, released a photo of herself in long-sleeved kimono on the occasion of Monday’s Coming-of-Age Day.
The photo of Ikee, ...
The Japan Sumo Association announced on Saturday that five more wrestlers were found to be infected with the coronavirus after receiving the results of emergency PCR tests conducted on entire associa...
A case of pink eye delayed Washington Wizards second-year forward Rui Hachimura’s season debut, but he certainly had an eye-popping opening quarter in his first action this season at home on New Yea...
Yokozuna Kakuryu, already issued a disciplinary caution for missing all or part of the past three tournaments, will skip the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament starting Sunday due to a back injury, stabl...
This season, Jimmy Laughrea reunited with a high school and college teammate when he joined the Obic Seagulls. On Sunday, they finally reconnected in the best way possible. Twice.
Laughrea threw tw...
Komazawa University staged a dramatic comeback, zipping past first-day leader Soka University late in the final stage of 97th Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden to win on Sunday.
Komazawa broke the ...
Komazawa University won the overall Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden title for the first time in 13 years and seventh time overall on Sunday.
The university finished the two-day, 10-section race...
Yudai Shimazu took the lead in the fourth stage and Yuta Mikami brought it home in the fifth as Soka University finished on top Saturday on the first day of the Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden for...
Soka University junior Yuta Mikami crosses the finish line of the fifth leg of the Tokyo-Hakone Intercollegiate Ekiden in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday. Participating for its fourth time, ...
LOS ANGELES — Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters right-hander Kohei Arihara, making the move to the major leagues through the posting system, has agreed to a two-year contract with the Texas Rangers, it ...
The defense that came up with the key play that put Obic into the championship game stepped up again, none bigger than on the final play of the game, to give the Seagulls their first X-League title in...
Judoka Hifumi Abe is on his way to his first Olympic Games by grabbing the last spot on Japan’s judo team after winning a one-match showdown against rival Joshiro Maruyama on Sunday.
The match he...
Mongolian-born yokozuna Kakuryu has been granted Japanese citizenship, it was announced in an official government notice on Thursday.
The Japan Sumo Association stipulates that Japanese citizenship ...
OSAKA — Hitomi Niiya smashed the Japan record in the women’s 10,000 meters that had stood for nearly two decades, and Akira Aizawa followed a short time later by breaking the men’s mark at the...
The Tokyo Aquatics Centre, the venue for the swimming competitions at the Tokyo Games, held its debut competition when the Japan national championships kicked off there on Thursday.
The championships...
Two years later than he had hoped, quarterback Jimmy Laughrea was finally reunited with his best friend from high school, who was also his roommate in college. Now the two of them will get a chance ...
This time, it was ozeki Takakeisho’s turn to put the lowest-ranked wrestler in the uppermost makuuchi division in his place.
Takakeisho maintained the lead at the November Grand Sumo Tournament by...
The International Olympic Committee will cover the cost to vaccinate athletes — who are participating in next summer’s Tokyo Olympics — against the novel coronavirus, IOC President Thomas Bach s...
The official orange color of the Yomiuri Giants has again spread across the stands of Tokyo Dome, the baseball team’s home field.
New technologies for preventing the spread of the novel coronaviru...
Ozeki Takakeisho and komusubi Terunofuji both remained unbeaten with victories on Thursday, sharing the lead with a pair of maegashira-ranked wrestlers through five days at the November Grand Sumo T...
A tournament that lost both yokozuna before it even started is now down to one ozeki.
Newly promoted ozeki Shodai’s hopes of winning a second straight title in his debut at the sport’s second-h...
Gymnasts from Japan, the United States, China and Russia will gather at Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo for an international meet beginning Sunday.
This is the first tournament for an Olympic spor...
For the second tournament in a row, there will be no yokozuna taking the ring when the November Grand Sumo Tournament gets underway on Sunday in Tokyo. Yokozuna Hakuho on Friday submitted his notic...
U.S. gymnasts arrived at Haneda Airport in Ota Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday in preparation for the first international event for an Olympic sport to be held in Japan since the outbreak of the novel coro...
The Yomiuri Giants won their second consecutive Central League pennant, and 38th overall on Friday.
Including those that came in the single-league era, the championship was the team’s 47th.
The Gi...
Due to the nature of sumo as a martial art, contact between wrestlers is inevitable. The fact that wrestlers also live communally in their stables adds to the risk of infection. The Japan Sumo Associa...
Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the J.League, Japan’s professional soccer league, set up a joint liaison council in March to seek advice from experts on measures to prevent the spread of the ...
The sports world has begun to take action by introducing elaborate measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in championships and other events.
Some federations of the sports that are ...
Spencer Patton of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars is known for the velocity on his fastball, but he and the rest of the sports world have had to handle the big curve the novel coronavirus pandemic broke of...
Next year’s Tokyo Marathon has been postponed from March 7 to Oct. 17 because of concerns that the race might not be able to include both elite and general-entry runners. The Tokyo Marathon Foundat...
Japanese Olympic hopefuls find themselves unable to go abroad
Many Japanese athletes who were training overseas are unable to go back because of entry restrictions on respective countries and terr...
Makuuchi division newcomer No. 14 maegashira Tobizaru continued to make a splash at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament, holding onto his share of the lead with two days of action remaining at Tokyo’s ...
The 12 professional baseball teams held an extraordinary executive committee meeting online on Saturday and confirmed that the limit on the number of spectators will be eased from the current 5,000 to...
NEW YORK (AP) — After one errant forehand in the first set of the U.S. Open final, Naomi Osaka looked at her coach in the mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium stands with palms up, as if to say, “Wha...
With a victory in a game that went down to the wire, Tatsunori Hara became the winningest manager in the storied history of the Yomiuri Giants. Hara recorded his 1,067th win at the helm on Friday n...
