Ribbon-cutting ceremony for 100 yr old lion statues

TOKYO, Japan - A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held at Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on April 1, 2014, as the lion statues on either side of its entrance turn 100 years old.

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