Date：23,Jan,2013
Written by Misaka Youhei

It gets snowbound in winter and that makes us play at snowballs. In Uonuma-shi, Niigata, there is a stone monument that declares the birthplace of a snowball fight. According to the account, two warriors had fought in 1500s. After their battle-gear broke, they had a snowball fight and it was the first snowballing, they say.