The CBS television network received calls from concerned viewers who saw what looked like a swastika at a Japanese temple in Nagano, where the network is broadcasting the Winter Olympic Games. The symbol, known as a “manji” in Japanese, means “temple” and predates by many centuries the somewhat different Nazi symbol.
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