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A Japanese Christian Church was established on Kukui Street in Nu'uanu on June 6, [[1897]], with the land and the building being paid for by $8000 collected from donors in both Japan and Hawaii. Okumura became head of that church in [[1904]], and established a second mission in the Makiki neighborhood of Honolulu that same year, but was also influential in establishing the islands' first Japanese language school, in [[1896]]. Another graduate of Dôshisha, the [[Hokkaido]]-born Rev. Shigefusa Kanda, came to Hawaii in [[1893]] and founded the Kohala Church on the island of Hawaii.
A Japanese Christian Church was established on Kukui Street in Nu'uanu on June 6, [[1897]], with the land and the building being paid for by $8000 collected from donors in both Japan and Hawaii. Okumura became head of that church in [[1904]], and established a second mission in the Makiki neighborhood of Honolulu that same year, but was also influential in establishing the islands' first Japanese language school, in [[1896]]. Another graduate of Dôshisha, the [[Hokkaido]]-born Rev. Shigefusa Kanda, came to Hawaii in [[1893]] and founded the Kohala Church on the island of Hawaii.
Many members of the [[Okinawans in Hawaii|Okinawan community in Hawaii]] formed their own separate congregations. One of the earliest was the Reimei Kyôkai (Church of the Dawn) in Palama, established in 1921 by Rev. Higa Seikan (Gashû) at the request of Rev. Charles Schwartz, an American Methodist missionary who had just returned to Hawaii from an extended tour in Okinawa.<ref>[[Mitsugu Sakihara]], "Okinawans in Hawaii: An Overview of the Past 80 Years," in ''Uchinanchu'', University of Hawaii (1981), 112.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii'' 1885-1924, Bishop Museum (1985), 77-78.
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii'' 1885-1924, Bishop Museum (1985), 77-78.
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