Roman Catholic Bishop. The first Japanese to be consecrated bishop, Msgr. Januarius Kyunosuke Hayasaka was born in Sendai to a couple who had just converted to Catholicism. Graduating from the local high school and successively from a second high school in Tokyo, he was sent over to Rome to further his studies at the Pontifical Urban University. Ordained priest there on June 10, 1917, Pope Pius XI appointed him bishop of Nagasaki on July 16, 1927, becoming thus first Japanese born to be raised to the episcopate, receiving his consecration from the Pontiff himself on the following October 30 at Saint Peter's Patriarchal Vatican Basilica. Experiencing a warm welcome at his visits to several associations, educational and welfare facilities in the Western world, including France and the United States, returning home in 1928, present at his diocese was then among the missionaries, future saint, Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM. Conv., who founded a monastery at the outskirts of Nagasaki and soon started the publication of a Japanese edition of the Knight of the Immaculate entitled "Seibo no Kishi", with Hayasaka himself granting permission for its initiation. Founding, in 1934, a female religious convent in Junkokoro Seibokai, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with Sister Esumi Yasu named as its first mother superior, he went on the found the Junior College Female Academy the following year. Suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 1934 and a cerebral apoplexy in 1937, he resigned from office on February 5 that year, seeking medication in his native Sendai. Eventually, he returned to an atom bombed Nagasaki in his later years to oversee the needed reconstruction of his former diocese, settling in Omura. Having been succeeded by Msgr. Paul Aijirō Yamaguchi, Hayasaka was named to the titular see of Philomelium by the Holy See on the acceptance of his resignation. Passing away at Spellman Hospital in Sendai, his body was sent over to Nagasaki for interment alongside the priests of his former diocese at the Akagi Bochi: "the cemetery by the red tree".