Every year, Japanese sumo wrestlers stealthily creep like ninja manatees into local maternity wards around Tokyo and abscond with local babies. The aim? To make these young neonates compete in the annual Baby-Cry Sumo ("Baby-Crying Sumo" contest) at the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.
The contest is simple: each sumo wrestler holds a baby up and prods it into shrieking banshee-like. The loudest screamer wins the contest. The winning baby doesn't get eaten.
I kid. But put yourself in these babies shoes. A half-naked, morbidly obese Japanese man wearing only a smelly thong lifts you up and begins to shake you, like someone testing the ripeness of a coconut. Even as a 2 week old, it is clear to you that these sumo wrestlers are men who can and will eat anything; you can easily imagine that half-digested baby arms regularly clog the toilet. Wouldn't you start screaming too?
Baby-crying Contest Photos [Japan Probe]
