Sumo Beautiful

So, I just got a comment from a sumo fan who is living in Japan to learn Japanese. She's starting her own sumo appreciation blog. Would ...

A friend of mine on Facebook found these gems while perusing a bookstore yesterday. Baby sumo wrestler salt and pepper shakers. For just $...

So, the rank below Grand Champion ( yokozuna) is called Champion. (Imagine.) The sumo term is ozeki. Last week at the end of the March tour...

How do these things keep happening? Is the universe converging? It kind of reminds of when my sister in law and I wrote a screenplay about...

So, this picture proves the whole premise of my book: that Texas and sumo CAN mix. http://bit.ly/A4obRY

A Japanese sumo wrestler has not won the tournament since 2006. Seriously? I guess we had the era of Asashoryu, and now it's Hakuhou, ...

I followed a hashtag on Twitter -- #sumo -- and found a Tokyo sumo fan tweeting the result of his favorite match of the day. I retweeted it....

January is a great month to be in Japan. Each year they celebrate "Coming of Age Day," a festival for every child who has become a...

It's quite possible there is a world shortage of "sumo fiction" everywhere. The lack is almost so pervasive, I would guess, th...

To answer my question of a couple of posts ago, "Why not in America?" my brother in law sent me this article. It proves sumo pops ...

It's been a long time coming, but I'm finally finished with a 2 year long project--a novel about Buck Cooper, a hapless obese Texan ...

I just went to check the results of the summer tournament in Nagoya. I've been crazy busy this summer, and I got behind on my sumo! (Sha...

At the beginning of a sumo match, the rikishi stand on their respective lines and when the signal is given they make their tachiai, which i...

I like the Japanese word chikara . It means power . I remember getting up early one morning in Japan and thinking, "Chikara nai." ...

I was at a writing retreat this month and I saw a friend of mine, Deb. Deb is Japanese. She was so excited to tell me about her trip to L.A....

I ran my first 5K this month. I'm no runner. At all. I hid in my neighbor's car during the track meet in junior high to avoid having...

My question is why isn't sumo more popular in America? I've wondered this a long time, ever since I started being a sumo fan. I as...

So worried about my friends in Japan. I've been emailing with my closest friend Kitamura-san. She doesn't live in the north where th...

Well, today's news reported more bad headlines about sumo. It's been a rough year, what with the baseball-and-mafia betting scandal ...

The mawashi loin coverings that the sumo wrestlers wear are either black or white. The amateurs wear white, and the pros wear black. A lo...