How the Women’s Super League found an unlikely market in Japan: ‘Let’s embrace this’

Seventy-six per cent of the WSL’s broadcast audience last season came from outside of the UK, according to figures supplied ...
Yahoo! Sports

Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world

TOKYO (AP) — Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still ...
NBC Olympics

Women: Kaori Sakamoto vs. the next generation

After a rollercoaster of a free skate at the 2025 Japan Figure Skating Championships, Yuma Kagiyama and Kaori Sakamoto punch ...
The Economist

Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries

THE TWO young contenders grab at each other’s loincloths. A referee keeps up the shout of “nokotta nokotta”, indicating that the wrestlers are still in the game. Suddenly one lunges forward, sending ...