TOKYO: Dozens of bawling Japanese babies on Saturday faced off in a traditional "crying sumo" ritual believed to bring the infants good health, which returned for the first time in four years after the coronavirus pandemic.

Pairs of toddlers wearing ceremonial sumo aprons were held up by their parents and faced each other in the sumo ring at Sensoji Temple in Japan's capital Tokyo.

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