By KEITA MANO/ Staff Writer
May 21, 2022 at 10:30 JST
Mikiko Yamanoha, left, exchanges the U.S. dollar into the yen as a clerk at the Bank of the Ryukyus Matsuo Branch in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 15, 1972, the day the southern prefecture returned to Japanese sovereignty. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
NAHA--In a photo from a historic day 50 years ago, an elderly woman is holding in her suntanned hand a new 10,000-yen bill with a portrait of Prince Shotoku printed on it. [Read More]
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