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Morita is also known for hosting programs related to professional sumo on NHK World-Japan. 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.
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]
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 ...
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.
A honbasho (Japanese: 本場所), or Grand Sumo Tournament in English, is an official professional sumo tournament. Only honbasho results matter in determining promotion and relegation for rikishi (sumo wrestlers) on the banzuke ranking.
Unusually, Shishi is also trained by his stable's okamisan (the latter being subject to numerous rules within the stables), Eimi, who is a former amateur sumo wrestler who won the Sumo World Championships and was part of Nihon University sumo club. He also trains with his master's son, a student at the prestigious Saitama Sakae High School sumo
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.
Japan’s top-ranked sumo wrestler is set to retireSource: NHKHakuho holds a record 45 tournament winsThe Mongolian native made his sumo debut in 2001He achieved the top rank of yokozuna in May ...