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Men battle for pieces of a bamboo fan in a muddy rice field during Isobe-no-Omita, a rice planting festival at Izawanomiya Shrine, Shima City, Mie Prefecture, Japan on June 24, 2018. During the festival, held annually to ensure a good harvest and a bountiful catch of fish, men and women plant rice by hand, and men battle for bamboo in a muddy rice field. The festival is considered one of Japan's three great rice planting festivals, and is a nationally recognized Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. (Photo by Aflo/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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