Word: maru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 18 ocean liners and other big vessels-including Italy's 18,765-ton Conte Verde, Japan's 16,975-ton Asama Maru-were ripped from their storm moorings, slammed ashore. The On Lee, a 1,026-ton coastal vessel, was smashed against the British cruiser Süffolk, bounced back like a ping-pong ball into the British destroyer Duchess, rammed through a wharf, piled up ashore at the foot of a waterfront street. At least 20 ships were reported sunk-four of them big ones-including Britain's Hunan, carrying 1,200 Chinese refugees from...
Much less sense was made last week by officers of the N.Y.K.-greatest Japanese steamship line-who walked off the steamer Katori Maru at Yokohama, saying they had "gone on strike as a patriotic protest because the N.Y.K. last Oct. 29 failed to order all its ships in all parts of the world to hoist the Rising Sun flag while the Emperor was reviewing the Grand Fleet." This inconveniences Emperor Hirohito who intends that the Heian Maru, off which the strikers also walked, shall carry his brother Prince Chichibu to represent Japan at the Coronation in London. To be sure...
...tense days last week the church folk of Oakland. Los Angeles and 88 other cities on Toyohiko Kagawa's itinerary were in a frenzy of alarmed excitement. As the result of heavy weather the Chichibu Maru with Dr. Kagawa aboard was half a day late reaching San Francisco. Churchmen of the San Francisco area gathered at a large dinner in Oakland, heard speeches and telegrams greeting the guest of honor who was not there. Next morning when the steamship was finally berthed. Dr. Kagawa did not walk down the gangplank and a frantic churchman telegraphed Secretary of Labor Perkins...
Most Buddha relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...
...Francisco, customs agents boarded the Japanese ship Tatsuta Maru, got 17 oz. of morphine...