David Madison/Getty Akebono Taro, the Hawaiian-born sumo wrestling star and WWE fighter, has died. He was 54. On Thursday, April 11, the family of the wrestler, who was the first foreign-born sumo ...

A sumo wrestler loses if any part of their body ... Dring watched sumo in Hawaii growing up, then 12 years ago, became reacquainted with it on a personal trip to Japan she took following her ...

Wily was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and had been a sumo wrestler and MMA fighter before switching to a career in acting Taylor ...

Looks into the lives of legendary sumo wrestlers who come from humble beginnings in Hawaii and become the first foreigners to rise to the highest ranks in Japan. Hawaiian Konishiki arrives in ...

In the highly structured world of sumo, wrestlers are expected to maintain ... The 60-year-old big Hawaiian, now long retired, sat down for an interview with The Asahi Shimbun.

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

Standing at 6 feet 8 inches, the former Kaiser High School basketball standout and one-season player for the Hawaii Pacific University hoops team, transitioned into sumo wrestling, where he made ...