Japanese revelers strip down to wish for good health in the new year. The celebration also marks coming-of-age for the region's young adults.

Some of the 9,000 men who took part in this year's Hadaka Matsuri at the Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan, get ready for the festivities.
It's called the "naked festival," but in reality no one actually gets completely naked. They wear these sumo-style loinclothes -- aka diapers -- as they fight for lucky sticks tossed into the crowd of man-flesh by the temple priests.

The men who get the sticks get lucky. I mean, they get to be called the "lucky men."

They don't actually get lucky, as far as I know... but maybe they do.

What I'm trying to say is, that's not necessarily a part of the festival itself.

And it all happens in the middle of the night, according to the Japan Event Calendar.

SEE THERE YARSH..LOL

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