JAPANESE BISHOP
To Visit Dunedin Next Week The first Japanese bishop to visit New Zealand will arrive in Dunedin next Tuesday. He is the Right Rev. Michael Yashiro, presiding bishop of the Anglican Church of Japan. On Tuesday night, he will address a public meeting in St. Paul’s schoolroom and will leave the next day for Oamaru. Bishop Yashiro speaks English fluently, having received part of his theological training in England. The bishop will be one of the speakers at the Centennial Church Congress which opens today in Christchurch. He travelled to the Lambeth Congress in 1948, his expenses being paid by donations from the occupation forces. He was the first Japanese allowed out of the country after the war.
During the war, he received harsh treatment for refusing to join a united church under state domination, and later served with the army in Korea where he made several converts to Christianity. He will address meetings in the larger cities in New Zealand before returning to Japan. While in Dunedin, he will be the guest of the Bishop of Dunedin, the Right Rev. W. A. R. Fitchett, and Mrs Fitchett.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27391, 17 May 1950, Page 10
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