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On the Go Travel: Japan The Naked Festival // www.SteeleTravelBlog.com

March 21, 2013
Picture it: Naked men in a 9,000-way wrestling match. It’s called the Hadaka Matsuri, it means “the Naked Festival,” and not even I could make this puppy up.

The largest of all these festivals is in Okayama, about 90 miles west of Japan’s second city, Osaka. There are few events in the world that put so much male flesh on display at once more than this one. Falling on the third...