New aquarium recruits start by cleaning fish tank from inside

TSU, Japan - Two male recruits, Asuka Imagawa (L), 20, and Ryosuke Okita, 23, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, clean the inside wall of a fish tank using sponges during an underwater initiation ceremony on March 31, 2014, as fish and turtles swim around.

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