Ten thousand nearly naked Japanese men braved freezing temperatures on Saturday night for a frenzied scramble in the dark for lucky talismans as part of a 500-year-old ritual. After stripping down to flimsy white loincloths, the revellers crammed into the Saidaiji Kannonin Temple in the southern city of Okayama to mark the Hadaka Matsuri annual festival. The wild antics started in the evening when the men tore through the temple ...