Japan's 'crying sumo' festival back after Covid

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 23, 2023 12:23 am

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.

THE CRYING GAME Toddlers held by their mothers start their ‘Baby-cry Sumo’ match — held for the first time in four years after the coronavirus pandemic — at the Sensoji Temple in Japan’s capital Tokyo on Saturday, April 22, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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