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*''Born: [[1847]]''
*''Died: 1936''
Miyama Kan'ichi was the first Christian minister to establish a Japanese Christian church in Hawaii. He did so in [[1887]], coming to Hawaii from a Methodist conference in San Francisco.
Miyama was responsible for the [[Japanese Christians in Hawaii|conversion to Christianity]] of a number of members of the [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|Japanese community in Hawaii]], including Japan's first Consul General to Hawaii, [[Ando Taro|Andô Tarô]]. Miyama also established the Japanese Temperance Society in Hawaii in [[1888]], a cause strongly supported by Andô.
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==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii'' 1885-1924, Bishop Museum (1985), 77-78, 110.
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*''Died: 1936''
Miyama Kan'ichi was the first Christian minister to establish a Japanese Christian church in Hawaii. He did so in [[1887]], coming to Hawaii from a Methodist conference in San Francisco.
Miyama was responsible for the [[Japanese Christians in Hawaii|conversion to Christianity]] of a number of members of the [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|Japanese community in Hawaii]], including Japan's first Consul General to Hawaii, [[Ando Taro|Andô Tarô]]. Miyama also established the Japanese Temperance Society in Hawaii in [[1888]], a cause strongly supported by Andô.
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==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii'' 1885-1924, Bishop Museum (1985), 77-78, 110.
<references/>
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Religious Figures]]