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Crying Sumo Babies – 2008

Another year, another nakizumo competition:

An annual “crying sumo” contest for babies, in which pairs of infants are brought together to see who can cry the first or the loudest, was held at Tokyo’s Sensoji Temple on Sunday.

In crying sumo the babies are held up by amateur sumo wrestlers in a ring, and the baby who cries first is the winner. If both babies cry, then the one that cries loudest wins. A total of 84 babies born last year participated in the contest at the temple.

If you haven’t seen it already, check out our April 2007 post of pictures from last year’s “crying sumo baby” competition and our June 2007 post about a similar competition in Shizuoka Prefecture!

Harmless fun, or traumatic experience?

[Via: 1, 2]

8 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - April 29, 2008 at 9:21 am

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: babies, crying, japan, nakizumo, sumo

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Comment by Neil Duckett

2008-04-29 13:09:26

Too Cute!!

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Comment by Yal

2008-04-29 13:30:12

Eh? Which one’s are the babies again?

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Comment by Ryry

2008-04-29 23:49:21

I’d say this is traumatic fun.

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Comment by David

2008-04-30 09:11:32

So cute! I just found out that the Jinja up the street from me does this also. I might have to go.

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Comment by reptile

2008-05-01 10:01:43

Why would it be traumatic. I assume once those cute babies are returned to their parents they probably will not even remember what just happened.

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Comment by slig

2008-05-05 13:11:05

how is this traumatic? c’mon ppl, live a little! it’s not everyday you get a sumo 10x your size screaming in your face haha :p

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