Shimada Shoten in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward is the only company in Japan that sells the special hair oil used by sumo wrestlers. With its characteristic aroma, the oil is a dead giveaway that a sumo ...

But Kato, who goes by the name of Tokohachi as a sumo hairdresser, felt a little distraught when Hakuho demanded to know if he had “tied Endo’s hair up.” Tokohachi, 67, wondered why the ...

The “sumo” name comes from the top bulb’s resemblance to a sumo wrestler’s hairstyle. In the 1970s, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture set out to create the gold standard of citrus to ...