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                             Contents 

      Preface............................................................4

   1. The First Bahá'í Meeting in Japan, 1909............................5  

   2. The First Bahá'í Teachers to Settle in Japan, 1914.................9  

   3. Early Bahá'í Literature...........................................13  

   4. Star of the East Series (Higashi no Hoshi)........................16  

   5. The First Local Spiritual Assembly in Japan.......................20  

   6. The Mid and Late 1930s............................................21  

   7. The Rebirth of the Faith in Japan.................................23  

   8. The First Postwar Local Spiritual Assemblies......................27  

   9. Literature in the Early Postwar Period............................44  

  10. The First National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís

           of North East Asia, 1957.....................................47  

  11. The National Hazíratu'l-Quds.......... ...........................51  

  12. The Bahá'í Geppo (Monthly News)...................................59  

  13. Hands of the Cause and Other Eminent Bahá'ís Who
           Have Visited Tokyo...........................................64  

  14. Early Japanese Bahá'ís of Tokyo...................................69
  
      References........................................................77 

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