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Babies take part in 'Nakizumo' or baby crying sumo contest at Sensoji temple in Tokyo

REUTERS/Issei Kato

25 April 2026

A ring assistant wears a mask to scare babies held up by an amateur sumo wrestler during 'Nakizumo' or a baby-crying sumo contest, where two wrestlers hold a baby each and a referee makes faces and loud noises to make them cry and determines the winner based on the loudest baby or the first one to cry, at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, Japan, April 25, 2026.

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