This is another photo that I picked up from an eBay seller in Japan, but no, it's not part of the Random Japanese Snapshot Collection. Anyway, I'm thinking that this photo is from post-war Japan. It looks like there are a handful of non-Asian faces in the crowd, not to mention the Rainer Beer bottles on the tables. There's a book out there called Embracing Defeat which is about how Japan and the Japanese accepted that they had lost the war, rejected militarism, and got on with their lives as best they could, which was the foundation of the post-war Japanese economic miracle. When I saw this photo, I suspected that it's an illustration of that concept.
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