Tokyo Festival
Tokyo Festival
"A gigantic religious festival in Tokyo National Stadium has some 75,000 people performing intricate dances, gymnastics, and pictorial effects. The finale: World Peace spelled out in 11 languages." TLS/MSs Japanese lay Buddhists (seems more like Shinto to me but they may be Pure Land Buddhists) comprised of women brandishing fans, pointy hats & tambourines performing a synchronized dance in stadium. LS another group forming the outline of roof lines using iron ladders. Sideview MS crowd applauding graciously. LSs audience in grandstands using cardboard cut-outs to depict various pictorial displays: mosaics of flowers, landscapes, etc. MS grandstanders holding up cardboard squares. LS "World Peace" spelled out in grandstands.