Aiming at the conversion of Mr. Gandhi to pro-Japanese beliefs, a 28- year old Buddhist priestess, Miss Gyoshin Sakurai, is going to India soon, according to the "Tairiku Shimpo" yesterday.
A disciple of the Rev. Gyosho Fujii, the young Japanese woman is going to India on the recommendation of the Rev. Gyosho Amasaki, who was in Shanghai during the 1932 incident.
Coming to Shanghai in January to prepare herself for her departure to India, the young priestess had been associated with the Myohoji Temple on Haining Road, but is now in Nanking working among.... Chinese women until her departure, the daily remarked.' Previous to her arrival in Shanghai, she had been in Suiyan, since last spring working among the Inner Mongolians, The Rev. Amasaki, after assisting the Rev. Fujii in the construction of a Japanese temple in Bombay, returned to his native country with the feeling that Mr. Gandhi and other Indian leaders were entertaining a biased view of the China conflict, the paper said.
"British authorities in India do not want the people of India to associate with Japanese," the Rev. Amasaki said, "therefore, we have decided to send Miss Sakurai, disciple of my master, the Rev. Fujii, and even though she is a woman, we believe that she will capably fulfill her mission to convert Mr. Gandhi."
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