# Unfurling the Divine Flag in Tokyo: An Early Bahá'í History

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>          Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Japan
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>          Shinjuku 7-2-13
>          Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022, Japan
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>          Copyright © 1998 by Barbara R. Sims
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>                              Contents 
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>       Preface............................................................4
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>    1. The First Bahá'í Meeting in Japan, 1909............................5  
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>    2. The First Bahá'í Teachers to Settle in Japan, 1914.................9  
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>    3. Early Bahá'í Literature...........................................13  
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>    4. Star of the East Series (Higashi no Hoshi)........................16  
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>    5. The First Local Spiritual Assembly in Japan.......................20  
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>    6. The Mid and Late 1930s............................................21  
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>    7. The Rebirth of the Faith in Japan.................................23  
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>    8. The First Postwar Local Spiritual Assemblies......................27  
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>    9. Literature in the Early Postwar Period............................44  
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>   10. The First National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís
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>            of North East Asia, 1957.....................................47  
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>   11. The National Hazíratu'l-Quds.......... ...........................51  
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>   12. The Bahá'í Geppo (Monthly News)...................................59  
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>   13. Hands of the Cause and Other Eminent Bahá'ís Who
>            Have Visited Tokyo...........................................64  
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>   14. Early Japanese Bahá'ís of Tokyo...................................69
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>       References........................................................77 
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> — *Unfurling the Divine Flag in Tokyo: An Early Bahá'í History (Used by permission of the curator)*