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Created: 2025-07-17 08:31:25 UTC

🇯🇵 VIDEO: Japan's World Barber Classic tries to bring back business

Hundreds of rowdy spectators, many heavily tattooed, roar at a Tokyo arena usually reserved for boxing -- except the contestants were not athletes, but barbers. The event was the World Barber Classic where a dozen contestants show off their hairdressing skills.

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