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(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP) -- Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to ...

Kiyomizu-dera, perched on a hill in Kyoto, is one of Japan's most iconic temples. It is best known ... which appear to float on the water at high tide. The shrine is a classic example of Shinto ...