Word: taiyo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Biggest group housed in the 138-acre pink-&-white Olympic village (with eight running tracks, nine swimming pools, eight wrestling and four boxing arenas, two weight-lifting pavilions, one football field) were the 300 U. S. team-members. Next most numerous were 106 Japanese who arrived on the liner Taiyo Maru. Cheered by 1,000 Los Angeles Japanese, they refused to let deckhands carry their paraphernalia. Three days later, Los Angeles Germans cheered even more loudly for 104 of their countrymen who arrived in yachting caps, blue coats, white trousers. Of the 60 Mexican team-members, eight were Indian long...