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Japan 101: Celebrating Hadaka Matsuri

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I was watching National Geography on Astro and there has a show on the Tokyo Shock Boys (who are a group of four highly energetic and wacky performers).


* The shock boys with shocking faces (Source: www.nms.ac.jp)

They would journey to participate and showcase four unique festivals in Japan. One of the eye popping one was the Hadaka Matsuri (or Naked Festival), where the Shock Boys tussled with 10,000 nearly naked men in loincloths to touch one naked holy man with the outside temperature at minus 2 degrees.

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Enforcement 101: When Motorcyclist Killed After Ramming A Bus

When they will ever learn?

The Star on Monday reported that “If only he had worn a helmet, Maniam Murugan might not have been killed when the motorcycle he was riding hit a stalled bus on Friday. It was not that the 33-year-old labourer from Temenggung flats in Kulai did not have a helmet; police found one in the carrier of his motorcycle.”… [Click to read the rest] “Enforcement 101: When Motorcyclist Killed After Ramming A Bus”