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AP Photos: Japanese bathe in icy water at a Tokyo shrine to purify their souls
Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.