Sumo is back this weekend for the 2024 natsu basho (summer tournament). The fifteen day tournament begins this Sunday (May 12) and runs until May 26. As always, Japan’s senior sumo wrestlers will compete each day for a chance to progress up the rankings and, for some, challenge for the Emperor’s Cup. The summer tournament comes after history was made in the previous tournament. At the spring tournament in March Takerufuji won the makuuchi yusho (top division championship) in his […] The post... Read this story