From the Stars and Stripes archives: a visitor moves through a garden of 540 stone statues of Buddha’s disciples at the Kitain temple in Kawagoe, Japan, May 18, 2019.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Two children look unhappy to put all their eggs in one shared box during the annual Easter Egg hunt in Frankfurt, Germany, Apr. 17, 1949.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: sanding wood and applying a special plaster, these orphans are learning lacquerware manufacture, a centuries-old profession, in Seoul, South Korea, January 1959.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: fading winter sunlight silhouettes Siberian swans at a small lake in the community of Shimoda, six miles south of Misawa Air Base, Japan, on Jan. 8, 2001.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A man looks into the window of a radio repair shop in London on Nov. 13, 1958.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Koyu Nakamura, AFRTS engineer, works in the master control room at the Rycom Plaza Studios on Okinawa in July 1964.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: USAREUR baseball most valuable player Ray Rosenbaum, right, and his USAFE counterpart, George Morgan, meet New York Yankees second baseman Billy Martin before a World Series game at Yankee Stadium in September 1955.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Readers using the Aomori Public Library on the eighth floor of Ausa enjoy an expansive cityscape view, in Aomori, Japan, March 2002.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: An underwater pothole gives a hapless GI an unexpected dunking as a buddy grins at his discomfort in Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 1967.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Heavy smoke billows from a massive tire pile as onlookers stand by in Saigon on Feb. 3, 1968.