circa 1928 Haifa 1971 Chicago Temple
A young Japanese man who became a Baha’i in Oakland,
California, in 1905, the second Japanese in the world to accept the Faith. He
was invited by ‘Abdu’l-Baha to travel with His entourage to California from
Chicago. For a time he lived with the family of Corinne True and in 1919 was
invited to serve ‘Abdu’l-Baha in the Holy Land.
He served the Master and afterwards Shoghi Effendi until 1938, when he
went to Japan for the duration of the second world war. In 1955 he returned to
the Holy Land where he served Shoghi Effendi and then the Hands of the Cause
and the Universal House of Justice.