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The year’s last ‘Naked Festival’

A news report about a ‘Naked Festival’ held in Aomori prefecture on New Year’s Eve:

The nearly naked young men in the video walked through the snow to dunk themselves in water before carrying a sacred float to a shrine and offering prayers. The festival, which is aimed at praying for a safe and prosperous new year, has existed for over 300 years.

Would you want to participate in this festival?

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8 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 1, 2008 at 9:18 am

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: hadaka mairi, hadaka matsuri, japan

http://casuallygeeky.blogspot.com/ Lord Huggington

Man, I’d never survive something like this or a polar bear swim. It would just wreck me!

kaito

I did a polar bear swim once as a dare, it was stupid of me, and was not fun.

http://www.leblogatommy.fr tommy

Do they know that they can die by doing such stupid things

Dakk

You can die by almost anything, what’s your point? Should we all live in bubbles, and never experience stuff that is out of the ordinary?
Andre

Better not cross the road anymore :p

gargoyle1

That newscaster needs a hair stylist – bad!
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