Basketball in Japan
Basketball in Japan grew through education and the YMCA, then school tournaments, company teams, professional leagues and international competition.
Sports in Japan
Volleyball in Japan
Volleyball in Japan connects school and company teams, six-player and nine-player traditions, Olympic memory and the development of national leagues.
Dohyō
A dohyō is sumo’s prepared contest area: a marked ring, built surface, ritual setting, and decisive boundary whose form varies by context.
Great Sumo Tournaments (Honbasho)
A guide to honbasho, the six official annual Grand Sumo tournaments that determine championships, records, promotion, and demotion in professional sumo.
Sumo
Sumo is a Japanese wrestling tradition encompassing professional tournaments, amateur competition, stable life, ritual performance, and a long history of public spectacle.
Judo
Judo is a modern Japanese martial art and educational practice built around throws, groundwork, kata, randori, safe falling, and mutual benefit.