Bull Fighting

They practise a form of bull fighting on Tokunoshima. It isn't the Spanish kind of man versus bull in a fight to the death but a bull versus bull sumo match. The bull that gets pushed out of the ring loses, and no match to the death. Unfortunately there were no matches on while I was here but did see the islands mascot at the airport. It does appear to have a habu wrapped around it though! Habu are the local venomous snake, which are reasonably deadly.