'Liar Tofu' event in Tottori

'Liar Tofu' event in Tottori

YONAGO, Japan - In front of a huge block of tofu, a woman helps her son insert a strip of paper, on which he has confessed the lies he told in 2011, into a box during the ''Liar Tofu'' event held in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2011. According to legend in this western Japanese prefecture, if you eat tofu on Dec. 8, all the lies you have told since the beginning of the year will go away.

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