9k men compete for good fortune in Naked Festival in Japan
Around 9,000 men wearing only loincloths participated in the 500-year-old Hadaka Matsuri or Naked Man Festival in the Japanese city of Okayama on Saturday. During the festival, which took place at night, the men wrestled over a pair of wooden sticks thrown by priests into the crowd. The sticks, called shingi, are believed to bring a year of good fortune. 