Tournaments

• Hatsu basho
  Honbasho
  A is an official professional sumo tournament. There are six held each year, a system established in 1958. Only honbasho results matter in determining promotion and relegation for rikishi ....
  
  , Ryogoku Kokugikan
  Ryogoku Kokugikan
  , also known as Sumo Hall, is an indoor sporting arena located in the Ryōgoku neighborhood of Sumida, one of the 23 wards of Tokyo in Japan, next to the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It is the third building built in Tokyo associated with the name kokugikan. The current building was opened in 1985 and has a...
  
  , Tokyo
  Tokyo
  , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
  
  , 9 - 23 January
• Haru basho, Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium, Osaka
  Osaka
  is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
  
  , 13 - 27 March
• Natsu basho, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 8 - 22 May
• Nagoya basho, Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
  Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
  The is an all purpose gymnasium in Aichi, Japan, built in 1964. Located on the site of the secondary enclosure of Nagoya Castle, it is host to numerous concerts and events...
  
  , Nagoya, 3 - 17 July
• Aki basho, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 11 - 25 September
• Kyushu basho, Fukuoka International Centre, Kyushu
  Kyushu
  is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....
  
  , 6 - 20 November

January

• Ozeki Takanohana wins his fourth top division yusho
  Yusho
  A Yūshō is a tournament championship in sumo. It is awarded in each of the six annual honbasho or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most number of bouts. Yūshō are awarded in all six professional sumo divisions...
  
   with a 14-1 score. Second and third are sekiwake Takanonami on 13-2 and Musashimaru on 12-3, who both earn promotion to ozeki after the tournament. Takanonami wins the Fighting Spirit prize, and Musashimaru the Technique Award. Musoyama wins the Outstanding Performance prize. Sekiwake Konishiki, demoted from ozeki after six years in the previous tourney, fails in his attempt to return to the rank after turning in a disastrous 2-13 score. Naminohana wins the juryo championship. Former maegashira Tachihikari retires.

March

• Yokozuna Akebono
  Akebono Taro
  is a retired American born-Japanese sumo wrestler from Waimānalo, Hawaii. Joining the professional sport in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian sumo wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990...
  
   wins his seventh championship after a three-way playoff with Takanonami, in his ozeki debut, and maegashira 12 Takatoriki, after all finish on 12-3. Takanohana is one behind on 11-4. Takatoriki is awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize, shared with Terao. Kaio
  Kaio Hiroyuki
  Kaiō Hiroyuki is a former professional sumo wrestler from Nōgata, Fukuoka, Japan.He made his debut in 1988, reaching the top makuuchi division in 1993. He held the second highest rank of ōzeki or champion for eleven years from 2000 to 2011, and is the longest-serving ozeki of all time in terms of...
  
   wins the Outstanding Performance Prize for his defeat of Akebono, while the Technique Award is shared between Kotonishiki and Oginishiki. Shikishima wins the juryo championship.

May

• Takahanada wins his fifth championship with a 14-1 score. Musashimaru is runner-up two wins behind on 12-3. Akebono is forced to withdraw after injuring his knee in a match with Takatoriki. Terao scores eight wins on his return to the sanyaku ranks and receives the Outstanding Performance prize. Mainoumi wins his fourth Technique Prize, and Takatoriki his fifth Fighting Spirit Award. Former maegashira Oginohana wins his third juryo championship.

July

• Musashimaru wins his first championship with a perfect 15-0 score - the first wrestler to remain unbeaten in the top division since Chiyonofuji in 1989. Fellow ozeki Wakanohana
  Wakanohana Masaru
  is a former sumo wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana III Masaru , and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Koji saw a boom in sumo's popularity in the early 1990s...
  
   loses only to Musashimaru and is runner-up on 14-1. Takanohana fails again in his yokozuna promotion attempt, scoring only 11-4. Akebono is out injured. Takatoriki wins his third consecutive Fighting Spirit Award after scoring 10-5 at komusubi, and Mainoumi wins his second Technique prize in a row. Hamanoshima wins the Outstanding Performance Award, and both he and Mainoumi are promoted to komusubi for the first time. The juryo championship is won by Tatsuhikari. Enazakura retires.

September

• Takanohana wins the championship, unbeaten on 15-0. Runner-up is sekiwake Musoyama on 13-2, who receives special prizes for Outstanding Performance (shared with Kotoinazuma) and Fighting Spirit. Akebono is out once again. Naminohana wins the juryo championship for the second time this year.

November

• Takanohana wins the championship with his second successive unbeaten score, compiling a three tournament record of 41-4. After the tournament he is promoted to yokozuna, the first Japanese to hold the rank since Hokutoumi in 1992. Despite being held at the ozeki rank for nearly two years, he is still the third youngest yokozuna in history after Kitanoumi and Taiho
  Taiho Koki
  Taihō Kōki is the 48th Yokozuna in the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. He is generally regarded as the greatest sumo wrestler of the post-war period. He became a yokozuna in 1961 at the age of 21, the youngest ever at the time, and he won a record 32 tournaments between 1960 and 1971...
  
  . Musashimaru finishes runner-up on 12-3, while Akebono scores ten on his return. Only one special prize is awarded, to Naminohana for Fighting Spirit. Wakashoyo
  Wakashoyo
  Wakashoyo is a Japanese mixed martial artist, kickboxer and former sumo wrestler.-Career:Although born in Chiba, he grew up in Nakano, Tokyo. He joined sumo in 1981, wrestling out of Futagoyama stable. He first entered the top makuuchi division in 1991 and made his sanyaku debut in March 1993 from...
  
   wins the juryo championship after a playoff with newcomer Tosanoumi. Former maegashira Hananokuni retires.

Deaths

• 9 Nov: Former maegashira Azumanishiki, aged 54.
• 22 Dec: Former maegashira Nachinoyama, also former Minezaki Oyakata, aged 74.
• 24 Dec: Former maegashira Nanatsuumi, aged 67.