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ContentsFrontispiece ..............................................................................iDedication ...............................................................................iiForeword ................................................................................iii 1.'Abdu'l-Bahá in Oakland, California in 1912 ...............................................1 2.The First Bahá'í Group in the Pacific .....................................................8 3.The First Japanese Bahá'ís ...............................................................10 4.'Abdu'l-Bahá's Prayer for Japan ..........................................................23 5.The First Public Meeting in Japan ........................................................24 6.Miss Agnes B. Alexander, Daughter of the Kingdom .........................................26 7.Dr. George Jacob Augur ...................................................................30 8.The First Photograph of a Bahá'í Meeting in Japan ........................................33 9.A Garden Party ...........................................................................3410.A Gathering to Meet Tagore of India ......................................................3511.Mr. Kikutaro Fukuta ......................................................................3512.Miss Yuri (Yuriko) Mochizuki .............................................................3713.A Bahá'í Girls' Class in Tokyo ...........................................................3814.The Faith Spreads to Kobe in 1920 ........................................................4015.A Christmas Party in Tokyo, 1920 .........................................................4116.Mrs. May Bolles Maxwell ..................................................................4217.Japanese Dolls to Sell for the House of Worship ..........................................4318.Auntie Victoria ..........................................................................4419.Mr. Tokujiro Torii .......................................................................4720.Akira Torii ..............................................................................4921.The Blind in Japan Receive the Light .....................................................5122.Mr. Daiun Inouye and Mr. Sensui Saiki ....................................................5423.Mrs. Ida Finch ...........................................................................5624.The Faith Reaches Korea from Japan in 1921 ...............................................5825.Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa ................................................................6226.Confirmed Bahá'ís, 1922 ..................................................................6427.Mr. Susumu Aibara ........................................................................6528.The Kanto Earthquake .....................................................................6729.China ....................................................................................7230.Miss Martha Root and Mrs. Keith Ransom-Kehler ............................................7531.The Emperor of Japan .....................................................................8132.Japan Religious Conference ...............................................................8233.A Meeting at a Buddhist Temple ...........................................................8434.Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki .............................................................8435.Two Persian Bahá'ís Visit Japan ..........................................................8536.Miss Alexander Introduces the Faith in Hokkaido ..........................................8837.Dr. Rokuichiro Masujima ..................................................................9038.The First Local Spiritual Assembly in Japan ..............................................9239.Kudan Ue .................................................................................9340.Esperanto and English Clubs, and Other Organizations .....................................9341.The Crossing ............................................................................11042.A Tea Party .............................................................................11143.Mr. Fujita's Mother .....................................................................11244.A Japanese Scroll Hangs in the Holy Land ................................................11345.In the Holy Land ........................................................................11446.The Years Between and the Later Years ...................................................11547.Naw-Rúz, 1948 ...........................................................................11948.At Kudan ................................................................................12049.In Tokyo ................................................................................12150.Two Bahá'ís .............................................................................12651.The First Persian Pioneer Families Settle in Japan, 1953 ................................12652.The Faith Spreads to Other Areas ........................................................12853.A Public Meeting in Osaka and Early Groups ..............................................13054.The Tokyo Haziratu'l-Quds ...............................................................13255.The First Asian Regional Teaching Conference and Further Expansion ......................13656.The First Convention of the Bahá'ís of North East Asia, 1957 ............................14557.Anthony Yuen Seto, 1890-1957 ............................................................14858.Early Activities ........................................................................15059.The First Bahá'í Marriage of Japanese Believers .........................................15160.Participation in Conferences in the 1950s and 1960s, and One in 1970 ....................15361.The First Summer School under the Guardian's Six Year Plan for Japan, Takarazuka, 1957 ..16062.The Development of the Local Spiritual Assemblies in Japan ..............................16163.Nagasaki, and the First Bahá'ís in Kyushu ...............................................17264.Expansion in the Late 1950s .............................................................17665.The Third Summer School .................................................................18166.In Osaka ................................................................................18267.Teaching in Hokkaido and the Development of the Faith Among the Ainu ....................18368.A Bahá'í Children's Class ...............................................................19769.Delegates to the 1962 National Convention ...............................................19770.At the London Congress, 1963 ............................................................19871.The Sixth National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia.................................19972.Two Birthday Parties ....................................................................20073.Dr. Mizuno Speaks at Summer Schools .....................................................20274.More Activities in the 1960s ............................................................20375.Hand of the Cause Miss Alexander Spends Two Years in the Hospital in Tokyo ..............20876.The Ashiya Bahá'í Cemetery ..............................................................21177.Three Japanese Bahá'ís Abroad ...........................................................21378.Bernard Leach, English Potter, Author, Artist, Poet, and Bahá'í .........................21679.The Continental Board of Counsellors ....................................................21980.Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands .................................................................22381.The North Pacific Oceanic Conference, Sapporo, Hokkaido, September, 1971 ................22782.Visits to Japan by Hands of the Cause and Other Special Bahá'ís .........................23083.The Spiritual Axis Between Japan and Australia .........................................269Afterword ...............................................................................273Bibliography ............................................................................276