Fans recognize the hard-hitting, fast Japanese women's wrestling style as Joshi Puroresu. One must be a beast to compete, much less rise to the top. These muscular pro-wrestling women check both ...

If you thought the $4 was intense, you haven't witnessed Stardom, the professional women's wrestling league in Japan. While the WWE's Wrestle Mania involves a lot of violent action, Stardom ...

And I will make Japanese women’s wrestling, which I love, bigger.” The 30-year-old has spent years honing her craft, making her professional debut in Ice Ribbon in Japan in 2017, winning the ...

The head of Japan's sumo association later apologised to the women. "The announcement [to ... sumo association," another added. What is sumo wrestling? Inside the scandal-hit world of sumo Mr ...

In recent months Japanese women have spoken out about sexual harassment ... lift the ban on women also follows an incident in a sumo wrestling ring last month where women performing first aid ...

And I will make Japanese women’s wrestling, which I love, bigger.” Giulia will soon depart NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) and head to the United States, having spent her last four years in the ...

Kiyooka dominated Rahman Amouzadkhalili of Iran 10-3 to win the men's 65-kilogram freestyle title before Kagami held off American Kennedy Blades 3-1 in the women's 76-kg final, taking Japan's ...

Japan’s Risako Kawai won her second Olympic wrestling gold, defeating Belarus’ Iryna Kurachkina 5-0 in the women’s 57-kilogram freestyle final on Thursday, a day after her sister Yukako won ...

Japan, meanwhile, nabbed five gold medals at its home Olympics — the most of any country. That was due in large part to its continued success in women's wrestling, which produced four of those golds.

On Wednesday night, Team USA's freestyle wrestler Sarah Hildebrandt upgraded from Japanese bronze to French gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics. It's the fourth-ever women's freestyle wrestling gold medal ...

1, Japan had 95,119 centenarians, up 2,980 year-on-year, with 83,958 of them women and 11,161 men ... His hobby is listening to live sports, including sumo wrestling, the ministry said. Japan is ...