Baha'i Faith in Japan (Paperback)

Chapters: . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Baha'i Faith in Japan begins after a few mentions of the country by Abdu'l-Baha first in 1875. Japanese contact with the religion came from the West when Kanichi Yamamoto ) was living in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1902 converted; the second being Saichiro Fujita ). In 1914 two Baha'is, George Jacob Augur and Agnes Alexander, and their families, pioneered to Japan. Alexander would live some 31 years off and on in Japan until 1967 when she left for the last time The first Baha'i convert on Japanese soil was Kikutaro Fukuta ) in 1915. Abdu'l-Baha undertook several trips in 1911-1912 and met Japanese travelers in Western cities, in Paris, London, and New York. Abdu'l-Baha met Fujita in Chicago and Yamamoto in San Francisco. Abdu'l-Baha wrote a series of letters, or tablets, in 1916-1917 compiled together in the book titled Tablets of the Divine Plan but which wasn't presented in the United States until 1919. Fujita would serve between the World Wars first in the household of Abdu'l-Baha and then of Shoghi Effendi. In 1932 the first Baha'i Local Spiritual Assembly was elected in Tokyo and reelected in 1933. In all of Japan there were 19 Baha'is. In 1937 Alexander went on Baha'i pilgrimage to return years later. In 1938 Fujita was excused from his services in Haifa out of fears for his safety during World War II and returned to Japan until 1956. In 1942, back in the United States, the Yamamoto family lived at a relocation camp during the war. Baha'i Americans associated with the American Occupation Forces reconnected the Japanese Baha'i community Michael Jamir found Fujita by 1946 and Robert Imagire helped re-elect the assembly in Tokyo in 1948. In 1963 the statistics of Baha'i communities showed 13 asse...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=21634658