A steam of sweat rose as hundreds of naked men tussled over a bag of wooden talismans, performing a dramatic end to a thousand-year-old ritual in Japan that took place for the last time. Picture from the ‘naked men’ festival in Japan.(Reuters) Their passionate chants of “jasso, joyasa” (meaning “evil, be gone”) echoed through a ceder forest of the northern Japan’s Iwate region, where the secluded Kokuseki Temple has decided to end the popular annual rite. Discover the thrill of cricket like never before, exclusively on HT. Explore now! Organising the event, which draws hundreds of participants and thousands of tourists every year, has become a heavy burden for the ageing local faithf
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