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Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief.

Today, sumo is a modern sport with records, rules and a governing institution that celebrated its 100th anniversary in October 2025. But those religious roots are still visible. The salt the wrestlers ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki is only 21 but has moved just one step from the top rank of Japan's national ...

The Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) issued a Human Rights Policy and an Integrity Code of Conduct on August 26, 2025, ahead of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, which ...

Shohei Ohtani was about halfway through his home-run trot when Taro Abe stood up from his second-row seat in the Vin Scully Press Box and tucked his green scorebook under his right arm. “Let’s go,” ...

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(The Conversation) — A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ceremony. Tournaments begin with a line of burly men ...