Saichiro Fujita, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese Baha'i leader
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Place of Birth: Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
About Saichiro Fujita
- Saichiro Fujita (?????, Fujita Saichiro, 1886 – 1976), a native of Yamaguchi Prefecture, was the second Japanese to become a member of the Bahá'à Faith from Japan.
- He was also distinguished by serving for many years at the Bahá'à World Centre through many of the heads of the religion from the time of ?Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, the period of the Custodians, and then the Universal House of Justice.While attending school in Oakland, California he joined the religion in 1904-5.
- Later he met ?Abdu'l-Bahá during his journeys to the West in 1912.
- Initially Fujita was living in Cleveland working for a Doctor Barton-Peek, a female Bahá'Ã, but failed to meet ?Abdu'l-Bahá as he came through.
- Later on ?Abdu'l-Bahá's next trip west Fujita caught up with him when he reached Chicago at the home of Corinne True and from there traveled with ?Abdu'l-Bahá to the west coast and back.
- During the trip there was an incident similar to the well known one of Louis George Gregory in that at a dinner a place at the table was not set for Fujita and ?Abdu'l-Baha asked for a place be set.Fujita was separated from ?Abdu'l-Bahá when he left the United States until 1919 when ?Abdu'l-Bahá offered an invitation for him to server the interests of the religion in Haifa at the Bahá'à World Centre as it came to be called.
- During his lifetime two tablets were addressed to Fujita specifically by ?Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Siegfried Schopflocher, who would later be appointed a Hand of the Cause, converted to the Bahá'à Faith during a meeting with Fujita in 1921 shortly after the death of ?Abdu'l-Bahá.From his arrival in Haifa Fujita would serve the rest of his life there except during the tensions of World War II.
- At the end of World War II contact was re-established with Fujita after some searching by Michael Jamir and later Fujita was able to return to continue to serve at the Bahá'à World Center.
- He attended the first Asian Regional Teaching Conference, held in Nikko, Japan, 1955.Until his death in 1976 he continued to serve in Haifa.He is buried in Haifa.
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