Day 13 of the May sumo tournament in Japan finished a couple of hours ago! The tourney lasts for 15 days, so it ends Saturday night!!??!! This is a great time to start watching!

Live / Replay:

• try searching on twitch, there are usually at least 3 different streamers providing live video feeds with English commentary, and it's fun to have a community to chat with in real time. The top Makuuchi matches start around 3am US Eastern Time though. At least one of the streamers does replays all day, usually of the entire day (including lower ranks).

Video Clips:

• youtuber DonDon makes a daily video of the "best 10" matches listed in English with replays including on-screen English analysis (posted around 6am EST): https://www.youtube.com/@dondonsumo2/videos Besides the "best 10" of the top Makuuchi tier, DonDon also makes a "best 5" of the second Juryo tier.

• NHK makes a daily video that has all the top-tier Makuuchi bouts with English spoken commentary (posted around noon-2pm EST): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/sumo/ and (possibly with additional delay) here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos

• NHK immediately posts individual videos of each top-tier bout listed in Japanese with Japanese commentary.

::: spoiler click here for instructions to see the NHK Japanese videos

They are re-doing their Japanese website. I THINK that to see the latest videos on the NHK site in Japanese, you look here: https://www.nhk.jp/g/ts/Z8WRRJ9K96/blog/bl/pm1VNbJpWQ/bp/pExrRxao2y/ and click on the topmost link that says "NHK ONE", it should look like this:

Click "I understand" to acknowledge that you're not in Japan (lel) and then scroll down til you see this button:

it might look like this:

click on that and you should see all the videos?!

For the listings in Japanese, try automated translations if there's a lot of text. Alternately, look for something like: 9月14日 which in this case refers to the 9th month and the 14th day (September 14th). Automated translation doesn't work that well on sumotori names, but this is a great opportunity to learn them by sight! (The JSA web site has pictures of them all.)

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• JSA immediately posts individual videos of each of the highest-ranked 10+ matches listed in Japanese with no commentary, here: https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-video/videos

Additional fan youtube channels (I haven’t checked them out too thoroughly)

• https://www.youtube.com/@sumo-highlights
• https://www.youtube.com/@TheMawashiShow/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@sumowithherbert
• https://www.youtube.com/@SumoFiles
• https://www.youtube.com/@LionSumo
• https://www.youtube.com/@Sumotop/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@Wakanoho-8/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@DarkCircleSumo/streams

Text Info in English:

• all results and standings and next-day schedule by sumodb

• more results and stats from sumostats, another fan site

• results and more info from the JSA

• daily writeups by The Mainichi (Mainichi Shimbun newspaper)

• occasional articles by The Japan News (Yomiuru Shimbun newspaper)

• for commentary, see the tachiai fan site

Intro to Sumo

• introductory video

• more English-language intro videos at NHK's Sumopedia

• the wikipedia article has a lot of great information including on sumo terms.