Bizarre Usually, we want babies, just silence, in Japan, you will be rewarded if you watch a baby cry. At least last weekend, when it was held in Tokyo, the Baby Crying Contest.
It is a tradition during the four hundred year-old Nakizumo Festival. Sumo wrestlers adorn themselves in traditional costumes and try babies, the wailing. The baby who first starts to cry, is the winner.
According to old myths it would be the little ones good health and much happiness bring. Also, this bad spirits are brushed aside. The louder they shout, the better. One hundred and sixty babies who were born in 2018 took part in the competition at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo was held.
