'Groom-Throwing Festival' held in Niigata

TOKAMACHI, Japan - A young man who married last year is about to be thrown onto snow in the traditional "Bridegroom-Throwing Festival" in Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, on Jan, 15, 2014.

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