An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

TSUGARU, Aomori Prefecture--Kokona Hasegawa was no match for the boys when she joined a sumo ... wrestler can unexpectedly defeat a larger opponent and because bouts are decided in a clear-cut ...