Participants wearing protective face masks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, pray as they take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and to wish for overcoming the pandemic at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 9, 2022.
People pray as they take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and overcome the pandemic, at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on January 9, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon