In 1988, he was scouted by the stablemaster Azumazeki, a former sekiwake wrestler known as Takamiyama who was also from Hawaii ... He left the Japan Sumo Association in 2003 to become a mixed ...

Two rikishi from Hawaii pioneered sumo's internationalization. We zoom in on legends Takamiyama, the first foreign rikishi to win a top-division tournament, and Konishiki, the first foreign Ozeki.

Standing at 6 feet 8 inches, the former Kaiser High School basketball standout and one-season player for the Hawaii Pacific University hoops team, transitioned into sumo wrestling, where he made ...

Looks into the lives of legendary sumo wrestlers who come from humble beginnings in Hawaii and become the first foreigners to rise to the highest ranks in Japan. Hawaiian Konishiki arrives in ...

We follow the epic lives of sumo legends who made it from humble beginnings in Hawaii, to becoming the first foreigners to rise to the highest ranks in sumo. Starting with Takamiyama who paved the ...

In 2008, seven years after retiring from sumo, he returned to the islands to promote a worldwide wrestling event and said his ...