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“Flying Sumo Wrestler” performs sumo moves mid-air while hurtling towards earth at high speed

Oona McGee
Jun 30, 2016
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Can a skydiving sumo wrestler complete the ring-entering ceremony mid-air with a “gyoji” sumo referee by his side?

Japan
(advertising • FujiFilm • instax SHARE SP-2 • marketing • skydiving • Sumo • tradition • video)

Oddly satisfying: watching sumo wrestlers in this hand-stamp assembly line 【Video】

Scott Wilson
Jun 14, 2016

Who knew listening to hypnotic hand-prints could be so relaxing?

Culture, Entertainment, Japan
(autograph • Hakuho • oddly satisfying • Sumo • sumo wrestler • tegata • yokozuna)

Champion sumo wrestler show off his amazingly efficient autograph production line 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Mar 10, 2016

As a sumo wrestler, it takes speed and precision to succeed in the ring, and to keep your fans supplied with autographs.

Japan
(autogrpahs • cool • funny • Hakuho • sports • Sumo • tegata • video • yokozuna)

Think you can match the training regimen of a champion sumo wrestler? 【Video】

Krista Rogers
Feb 1, 2016

Eating a ginormous lunch and taking afternoon naps? Pff, no sweat! Doing 100 reps of a brutal weight training regimen? No thanks…

Japan
(Kotoshogiku • ozeki • Sumo • training • video • weights • yokozuna • YouTube)

New Toyota ad answers the age-old question: How is a sumo wrestler like a car?【Video】

Preston Phro
Jan 20, 2016

Seven sumo wrestlers, one car. The similarities are almost too numerous to list them all!

Internet, Japan, USA
(cars • Sumo • TOYOTA • wtf)

Combat math – Professional sumo wrestler’s throw follows the golden ratio

Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2016

The golden ratio has been seen in mathematics, architecture, music, natural phenomena…and now sumo wrestling.

Japan
(cool • golden ratio • golden rectangle • math • sports • Sumo)

“Kawaigari”: Learn this depressing sumo jargon while enjoying photos of wrestlers with cats!

Preston Phro
Jan 4, 2016

Learn about this sad sumo jargon while enjoying a few photos of sumo wrestlers petting cats!

Japan
(cats • cute • Japanese language • Sumo • twitter)

Sushi, sumo, and cats in kimonos: the best Christmas and New Year cards from Japan【Pics & Video】

Oona McGee
Dec 22, 2015

These holiday greeting cards from Japan are so cool you have to see them to believe they’re real.

Japan
(Christmas • cool • cute • greeting cards • Hello Kitty • new year • New Year's Day • Ninja • Sumo • video)

Japanese netizens shocked by the sight of sumo wrestlers bathing in hot spring

Scott Wilson
Dec 9, 2015

Who says sumo wrestlers can’t be sexy?

Japan
(beautiful • funny • hot springs • onsen • Sumo • twitter)

The deceiving cat: Sumo wrestler wins match using “cute” technique, but some are not happy【Video】

Preston Phro
Nov 24, 2015

A sumo wrestler has drawn ire after using the adorably named nekodamashi, or “deceiving cat,” technique to win a match.

Japan
(deceiving cat • nekodamashi • Sumo • technique • video)

Sumo horse racing game returns with guest appearances from Street Fighter characters!

Preston Phro
Nov 18, 2015

With laser-blast-firing sumo wrestlers on horses, Japan Sumo Derby was one of the best things we’ve seen this year. So, how can it be topped? With Street Fighter characters!

Internet, Japan
(funny • horse racing • Street Fighter • Sumo • video games • wtf)

Sumo sprinting really ought to be the next evolution in track and field【Video】

Master Blaster
Oct 21, 2015

Let’s face it, something needs to be done about track and field. Although it could be considered human athleticism in its purest form, surely the art of running in a straight line is nearing our maximum potential as a species.

It’s time to take events such as sprinting to the next level. Luckily a small group of sumo wrestlers may have stumbled upon a way to bring another dimension to the sport, and another chin or two as well.

Japan
(Olympics • sports • Sumo • sumo wrestlers running • track and field • video)

Join the hordes of net users giggling at GIFs of sumo wrestlers performing comedic moves【Videos】

Krista Rogers
Oct 5, 2015

Unless you’re striving to become one of the big guys yourself, you may not have much connection to the world of professional sumo. As an ancient sport with plenty of ritual elements, the wrestlers, known as rikishi in Japanese, have a highly regimented training lifestyle. With all those rules, it’s certainly easy to overlook the comedic side of sumo.

Wait, there’s a comedic side to sumo?

Japan
(funny • GIFs • rikishi • shokkiri • Sumo • video)

Let the rejoicing begin: Someone has made a sumo musical and the trailer is amazing! 【Video】

Preston Phro
Aug 6, 2015

Adding “musical” to the end of any idea is an easy but effective way to come up with concepts for new creative properties. Foul-mouthed muppets plus musicals gave us Avenue Q and anime plus musical has given us a surprising number of stage productions! But one combination we’d never even dreamed of has now seen the light of day: A sumo musical.

Titled Dosu Koi Musical, this sumo musical isn’t actually a stage production, but it does star none other than Taiwanese singer Lin Yu-chun, whom you might remember killing it on America’s Got Talent in 2010. Maybe if we’re all good boys and girls, this will be turned into the next Broadway hit starring Lin and Neil Patrick Harris!

Internet, Japan
(Dosu Koi Musical • funny • musical • Sumo • video)

Robot sumo wrestlers fire laser blasts in crazy, free-to-play horse racing browser game

Casey Baseel
May 27, 2015

Aside from having particularly large members of the animal kingdom as their stars, sumo wrestling and horse racing don’t have a whole lot in common. But the sport of kings and the sport of heavy, scantily clad men are teaming up in a cross-promotion that’s bizarre even by the standards of Japanese marketing, with Japan Sumo Derby, a free-to-play browser game filled with sumo wrestlers riding famous Japanese race horses.

Japan
(crazy • funny • horse racing • sports • Sumo • video games • weird)

Japanese Fitness expert recommends toddlers play catch, climb on jungle gym, sumo wrestle

Casey Baseel
Apr 28, 2015

Remember when you were a little kid, and your parents would take you to the park to play? Not only were you having fun, you were developing important motor skills as you ran around, did somersaults, and swung on the monkey bars. Maybe when you got a little older and more coordinated, you’d even play catch with your mom and dad.

But did your parents love you enough to have a couple of sumo bouts against you?

Japan
(fitness • health • kids • Parenting • sports • Sumo)

Big dudes CAN jump: Frolicking sumo means it’s officially springtime again in Japan!

Master Blaster
Apr 24, 2015

It’s been a rather hard winter, with some areas up north experiencing heavy snowfalls and other parts with hard-hitting low temperatures. But, as heralded by the ume and cherry blossoms, spring has finally sprung.

And what could be a better symbol of these sunny days coming to Japan than some scantily clad sumo taking advantage of the pleasant warmth.

Japan
(funny • sports • spring • Sumo)

What do sumo wrestlers have in common with Tinker Bell?

Oona McGee
Jan 28, 2015

Sumo wrestlers and Disney fairy Tinker Bell are not two things you would think have much in common. Yet their uncanny similarity is exactly what netizens in Japan have noticed, following a series of photos published recently on the Internet.

Japan
(anime • Disney • manga • Sumo)

Four things women are banned from doing in Japan【Women in Japan Series】

Amy Chavez
Dec 22, 2014

Women have been prohibited from doing certain things (entering places, using facilities, etc.) for as long as civilization has existed. Restrictions are still common, albeit usually in religious contexts only. While religions themselves evolve and change with the times and bans are lifted, it doesn’t mean all of them get an update.

As women, we all know the purported reasons behind these bans: women are “impure” because we menstruate (the same impure biological process that allows us to give life to men), we are the physically weaker sex, and we distract men with our beauty. Yada, yada, yada.

Today, in our Women in Japan Series, we take a look at four things women are still not allowed to do in Japan. I’ve divided them into bans and semi-bans. Bans allow no women; semi-bans allow women–but only sometimes.

Of course, it’s high time these restrictions were lifted. While much headway has been made in the past, such as the lifting of the rule preventing women from climbing Mount Fuji, other bans are proving more stubborn despite protests by Japanese women’s groups. Will these restrictions be lifted anytime soon? Only the Japanese people can decide.

Japan
(bans • capsule hotels • Mt. Omine • Sumo • sushi chefs • Women in Japan Series)

Sick of BABYMETAL? How about some sumo metal!

Preston Phro
Dec 21, 2014

Japan has a few, shall we say, unusual commercials that have raised eyebrows around the world. While you may laugh, when you think about it, it just shows that Japan’s marketers really know how to get the audience’s attention–and isn’t that the job of a commercial, to get people’s attention? We’d say so, and we think we may have found our favorite new eyebrow-raising Japanese commercial!

An exhilarating, upbeat sound track? Check. A simple, direct message that makes almost no sense at all? Check. Half naked people? Oh, holy hell, yes, check!