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From the press
Sumo as it is being reported now — headlines from the Japanese and international press, updated through the day. Japanese coverage is shown everywhere, because that is where the sport is actually covered.
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On video
Features, explainers and analysis from the Association’s own channel and from independent sumo broadcasters.
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Listen
Independent sumo podcasts, straight from each show’s own feed. Episodes run through the tournament and keep going between them.
Where this comes from. Headlines are gathered from public news feeds and link straight to the publisher — DOHYŌ hosts no article text and translates none of it. Videos play from the publishers’ own YouTube channels.
Where this comes from. Every item on this page is arithmetic over the tournament
record — promotion thresholds, three-tournament windows, closing streaks, gold stars.
Nothing here is translated or rewritten from another publication. Records via
sumo-api.com,
covering every bout since 1958. Recomputed three times a day.
Promotion standards in sumo are customary, not codified — thirty-three wins across three tournaments at sanyaku is what the committee has tended to want, not a rule it is bound by. Treat the numbers as the case, not the verdict.
Promotion standards in sumo are customary, not codified — thirty-three wins across three tournaments at sanyaku is what the committee has tended to want, not a rule it is bound by. Treat the numbers as the case, not the verdict.