DescriptionParticipants in Happi coats carrying a portable shrine past Akihabara Station in Tokyo during the annual Kanda Matsuri, one of the three great Shinto festivals of Tokyo along with the Fukagawa Matsuri and Sannō Matsuri.
DescriptionA dense crowd, including Boy Scouts and children, jostling on the sidewalk to celebrate Queen Wilhelmina's return to The Hague. She had fled to the UK in 1940 to establish a government-in-exile following the Nazi invasion, returning only after the allied liberation of the Netherlands.
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DescriptionA street scene in Berlin bustling with participants of the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students. The event drew ~25,000 foreign visitors to East Germany for a week of anti-war rallies and cultural exchanges at the height of the Cold War detente.
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