Famed Tokyo disco revived for one day at Osaka department store

Shoppers at Takashimaya Co.'s department store in Osaka, western Japan, enjoy a show on the evening of July 29, 2015, in a seventh-floor space re-creating just for the day Maharaja, which was a legendary high-end Tokyo disco and symbol of the bubble economy in the 1980s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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