Over 9000 Men get naked in Japanese Festival

In any other country, this would be the strangest festival of all.

But In Japan thousands of men strip down to fight for a pair of sticks in a quest to be named "Lucky Man of the Year."
Although women don't compete in the hunt for lucky sticks, but they still get into the nearly-naked spirit of things at the Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan.

The name of the festival is Hadaka Matsuri. hadaka" means "naked" and "matsuri" means "festival"