December 27. On this date in 1909, Charles Mason Remey and Howard C. Struven, the first Bahá'ís to make a complete circuit of the world, reached Tokyo. Mason Remey would later become a Hand of the Cause, the president of the International Bahá'í Council, and after Shoghi Effendi's death, a claimant to the office of Guardian.

Charles Mason Remey, seated second from left and Howard Struven, second from right, with some eastern believers in 1910.


December 27. On this date in 1909, Charles Mason Remey and Howard C. Struven, the first Bahá'ís to make a complete circuit of the world, reached Tokyo. Mason Remey would later become a Hand of the Cause, the president of the International Bahá'í Council, and after Shoghi Effendi's death, a claimant to the office of Guardian.