New Japanese Bishop named for Yokohama

MGR. Luke Arai, 47 year-old Vicar General of the diocese of Tokyo, has been appointed Bishop of Yokohama. He succeeds Bishop Wakida, who resigned last July. The Bishop-elect was born in the village of „Utsunomiya, about 100 miles north of Tokyo. He studied philosophy and theology in Paris and was ordained in 1930 by the late Cardinal Verdier.
Returning to Japan, he became assistant editor of the Catholic newspaper in Tokyo and also made regular missionary journeys into two neighbouring provinces, neither of which had a resident priest.
Mgr. Arai will be consecrated by Archbishop de Furstenberg, Apostolic Delegate to Japan, on February 25.