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The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) possesses a modern and highly capable fleet, including light carriers, large AEGIS destroyers, and advanced conventional submarines which are renowned for ...

Then collegiate star Suehiro Nagaoka, center, poses with stablemaster Takasago, right, and Kinki University sumo coach Atsumi Inori after the announcement that he would be joining the stable in ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Former ozeki Asashio, who headed the Takasago stable after retirement and produced yokozuna Asashoryu, has died at the age of 67, Japan Sumo Association sources said Friday.

Paul G. Allen-Led Expedition Reveals First Underwater Footage of the USS Ward in Honor of the 76 th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the Men who served there. Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist ...

Taiho, who has died of heart failure aged 72, was considered the greatest sumo wrestler of the second half of the 20th century, and arguably the greatest of all time, winning 32 honbasho – "real" or ...

Standing with his fists clenched and arms aloft, sumo wrestler Asashoryu's celebration after beating a bitter rival would be considered fairly restrained in most sporting arenas. Naughty, naughty: ...