By KEITA MANO/ Staff Writer
May 21, 2022 at 10:30 JST
Police vehicles, including a patrol car, guard a fleet of trucks loaded with containers carrying cash along Highway No. 1, today’s National Highway Route 58, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 2, 1972. The trucks were carrying the containers, which had arrived at the Naha Military Port, to the Bank of Japan Naha Branch. (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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