OIL LAMPS FOR TOKYO
(From a Reuter Correspondent.) TOKYOThe inhabitants of Afusa, a® isolated village in Southern Japan, who had electricity brought to their home* recently, were faced with the problem of disposing of more than 2000 oil lamps. After the first switch had been thrown, the villagers held a religion* ceremony to give thanks to the lamp s for their years of service. Then they decided »to send them to a "backward community that needed them. They decided that Tokyo, the third large®; city in the world, was "backward. The lamps were sent to several ToKj° suburbs all without electricity.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 8
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