Giant rice cake-lifting festival at Kyoto temple

KYOTO, Japan - Mika Kitagishi (C) lifts a 90-kilogram rice cake during a "mocha-age" lifting competition at Daigo-ji, a temple in Kyoto, western Japan, on Feb. 23, 2014. Kitagishi won the women's section of the annual event, held to wish for good health, by holding the rice cake for a record-breaking time of 11 minutes and 11 seconds.

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