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8: The NHK charity sumo tournament is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan with around 4,500 people attending. [ 25 ] 9: The 49th Japan Grand Sumo Tournament, a one-day competition for professional sumo wrestlers, is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan.
1984 in sumo - Wakashimazu takes home his 1st and 2nd yusho, Kitanoumi wins his 24th and final yusho, Takanosato wins 4th and final yusho as well, surprise maegashira 12 Tagaryū claims a yusho, Chiyonofuji claims 10th yusho. 1983 in sumo - Both Chiyonofuji and Takanosato win 2 yusho, with Kotokaze and Hokuten'yū winning the other two ...
He has been a play-by-play announcer since 1999, and since 2016 he has covered sumo tournament news, including host of the program Grand Sumo Preview and color commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [1] [3] [5] He is one of a roster of English-language play-by-play announcers for sumo tournaments that air live on NHK.
The first table below lists the champions since the six-tournament system was instituted in 1958. [1] The championship is determined by the wrestler with the highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day tournament.
The sumo tournament held in Nagoya every July is scheduled to move from the older Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (Dolphins Arena) to the new IG Arena starting in 2025, [9] which the Japan Sumo Association will refer to as the Aichi International Arena.
A sumo wrestler from Ukraine is one of three new promotions by the Sumo Association to the second-highest jūryō division for the November 2024 tournament. 20-year-old Aonishiki, a third-place finisher in the 2019 World Junior Sumo Championships, moved to Japan in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the six tournaments since his ...
Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current January/Hatsu 2025 banzuke, by clicking the 'Current rank' sorting button.; The East side of the banzuke is regarded as more prestigious than the West side and those ranked on the East will generally have had a slightly better record in the previous tournament than those with the same rank on the West.
He is currently the longest-serving commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [9] In 2007, Mihara was appointed as one of the anchors of NHK Newsline. [3] He also served as NHK's English-language speed skating commentator during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and baseball commentator. [10]