Every year on New Year's Eve, the Chion-in Temple in Kyoto rings in the new year with a bell that is more than 3 meters high and weighs 70 tons. The bell was cast in the 17th century.

KYOTO--Priests at Chion-in temple here tolled a 70-ton bell, said to be one of Japan’s three largest temple bells, in a dry run to ring out a year overshadowed by wars overseas. The Dec.