The Dalai Lama opens art exhibit in Tokyo, 1967
Published: August 6, 2012
Hideyuki Mihashi ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, September 26, 1967: The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists, and Matsutaro Shoriki, Japanese television pioneer and owner of the Yomiuri newspapers, cut the ribbon to open an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures at a Tokyo department store.
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