Celaida Lissabet, 15, was participating in what was supposed to be a fun event at her Miami-area charter school last October, wrestling with a classmate while wearing an inflatable sumo suit ...

Audience volunteers — wearing inflatable sumo suits — may combat the wrestler of their choice at Asakusa Sumo Club in Tokyo. (Kelly Agee/Stars and Stripes) ...

U.S.-born sumo wrestler Akebono Taro, an 11-time grand champion, has died from heart failure, his family confirmed Thursday. He was 54.

Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in its popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54.