He
was 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.
