Saint Sergei Sugihara (Chiune Sugihara) of Japan - Japanese diplomat (+1986)
July 31
Born on January 1, 1900 , Sugihara enrolled in Tokyo ’s Waseda University , which to this day is considered to be one of Japan ’s top private institutions with a flair for international affairs. He studied English, and then was received into the Foreign Ministry. An accomplished linguist, he was sent in the 1920’s to the Japanese language institute in Harbin , the capital of Manchuria , China . There he learned
Saint Nicholas Kasatkin of Japan (+1912) on Buddhism, continued (Part 2)
Excerpts from his diary supplement our understanding of how St. Nicholas related to Buddhism. Here observations are also marked by the fact that they were made by a practicing missionary.
Thus it is with, for example, the theme of the Buddhist priests’ resistance against Christianity. The saint calls them outright “enemies of Orthodoxy”, who “do not miss any opportunity to take advantage of existing circumstances in order to trouble the Orthodox and weaken Orthodoxy—which, however, they
Saint Nicholas Kasatkin of Japan (+1912) on Buddhism (Part 1)
Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Archbishop Nicholas (Kasatkin; 1836-1912), an outstanding missionary to Japan where he labored for over fifty years, was the founder of the Japanese Orthodox Church. Of the tens of thousands of Japanese converted to Orthodoxy thanks to his labors, a significant portion were former Buddhists, and amongst his assistants were former Buddhist monks (Bhikkhu), for example, Paul Savabe. The saint studied Buddhism during the first eight years of his time in Japan, when, in his words, he “strove
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Saint Andronik Bishop of Kyoto, Japan and Perm, Russia, hieromartyr in Russia (+1918)
June 7
