Word: saeki
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After weeks of wrangling, peace came with the autumn to 1,200-year-old Horyuzi Temple when ancient Abbot Join Saeki at last decided to let scientists dig for a casket supposedly containing the ashes of Buddha. There was only one condition: the casket could be opened only by a picked seven-man committee acceptable to the abbot. "Tampering with an old structure," said Saeki, "is tantamount to vivisection...