Bamboo cross draws Japanese bishop to Canberra

Posted on September 12, 2014 
Filed under Australian dioceses

bamboo-cross“Bishop Andrew Yatuka Nakamura, the Bishop of Kobe, and his wife will visit Canberra on 16 and 17 September. Bishop Andrew follows in the steps of Bishop Michael Yashiro who came to St John’s on 10 June 1950 and presented a small bamboo cross with the inscription Reconciliation and Repentance at a service.

The Sydney Morning Herald on 10 June 1950 reported the visit, the first by a Japanese leader at a time when the wounds from the Pacific war and its infamous prison camps were still raw…”

– a story of reconciliation from the diocese of Canberra & Goulburn.