Kanamara Matsuri: The Penis Festival Funding HIV Research

Every first Sunday of April, the streets of Kawasaki fill with tens of thousands of people parading giant phalluses through ordinary traffic, eating phallic-shaped candy, and raising money for HIV research — all inside a Shinto religious tradition running since the Edo period. The viral photographs have been circulating for years. Almost nobody who shares them knows the actual story.
March 14, 2026
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