In Japan, a horse’s death spurs calls for festival of ‘obvious’ animal abuse to be cancelled
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Japan’s annual ‘Rising Horse’ festival sees the animals forced to run up a steep hill and clear a two-metre high ‘wall’ while being slapped, yelled at, and hit with ropes, sticks and whips.