Osaka department store revives post-WWII ballroom for limited period

Osaka department store revives post-WWII ballroom for limited period

OSAKA, Aug. 3 Kyodo - Employees of Takashimaya Co.'s department store in Osaka, western Japan, perform a dance near the entrance to its first floor on July 29, 2015, to celebrate the limited revival of its ballroom operated from 1947 to 1950 to help enliven Japan in the immediate years after the end of World War II.

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