Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news. A baby held by a student sumo wrestler cries during the 'Baby-cry Sumo' competition at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo on May 30, 2015. In the Nakizumo Festival, held throughout Japan, sumo wrestlers hold babies and make weird noises and faces in an attempt to make infants cry. Sumo wrestlers coaxed 80 babies, all less than a year old, to cry at the Naki Sumo- crying baby contest. Discover Naki Sumo Baby Crying Contest in Tokyo, Japan: For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons. The traditional Nakizumo Festival, held in Tokyo, Japan, is … A baby is held by a sumo wrestler during the Naki Sumo Baby Crying contest. University club sumo wrestlers hold babies aloft in the contest and try to make them cry. CRY!” (“Naki!”) into their little faces. Japanese parents believe that sumo wrestlers can help make babies cry out a wish to grow up with good health. In other parts of the country, the Each baby is held by a sumo wrestler and the competition rules are pretty simple, two babies are in a duel and the first baby to cry wins the round, if the babies cry at the same time then the baby who wails the loudest is given the win. AFP PHOTO / Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images) The first baby to cry is declared the winner. The sumo wrestlers pull faces, make noises and jiggle babies to get their assigned one to cry first. Two sumo wrestlers face one another, holding the babies. An old stand is just yelling, “CRY! At this year’s competition, over 100 sumo wrestlers cradled tiny babies in their powerful arms. Sumo wrestlers make babies cry at the Naki Sumo crying baby contest in Japan. CRY! The Crying Sumo Festival is not grown men bawling their eyes out but a competition between one year old babies to see which one cries or laughs first after being dangled in the air by sumo wrestlers. Whichever baby cries first, is the winner. HULKING sumo wrestlers have been trying to make babies cry in a bizarre ceremony. The winner is the one who can make their baby cry first. An unidentified baby, held by a college sumo wrester, cries during Naki Sumo, or Crying Baby Contest, as a judge looks on at Sensoji temple in Tokyo. If both start crying at the same time, the louder baby wins. As two wrestlers and babies face off in each round, the winner is the wrestler whose baby cries first. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images 4 of 17 The 400-year-old traditional festival is believed to bring growth and good health to the infants.

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