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13th World Scout Jamboree
13th World Scout Jamboree
Location Asagiri Heights, Mount Fuji, Fujinomiya City
Country Japan
Date 1971-08-02 to 1971-08-10
Attendance 23,758 Scouts

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The 13th World Jamboree was held August 2–10, 1971, on Asagiri Heights on the western side of Mount Fuji, in Fujinomiya, Japan, approximately 80 miles southwest of Tokyo.



The American contingent was divided up.[citation needed] A code was given to the troops. Some might be JKT, which meant Jamboree, Kyoto, then Tokyo, before returning to the United States. Some others might tour Tokyo, then go to the Jamboree, then tour Kyoto.



In the opening days of the jamboree the Scouts played a 'wide game' in which each Scout was given a Japanese character on a colored card worn around the neck. At a signal the Scouts would fan out over the jamboree site looking for the other characters which would spell out the jamboree theme, 'For Understanding'—no two character cards could be the same color! The Scouts who accomplished this feat then proceeded to a station to have their cards validated with a stamp.


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