in 1991 the community organized an affiliate of the association for baháʼí studies in japan which has since held annual conferences, published newsletters, and published and coordinated academic work across affiliates. in the 1999 "yerrinbool report on scholarship" various japanese academics are noted: landegg academy had a faculty member, seinan gakiun, from the university in japan, nozomu sonda published a revision to an introductory book in japanese, mary noguchi who chaired the 8th conference, tsunoi hiroshi who chaired the 2008 conference, sandra sims fotos chaired several of the conferences, physicist stephen r. friberg, several of whom also worked on the university club committee. the conferences have been held in places like waseda university, sapporo, tokyo, yokohama, yamaguchi, and kyoto. several baháʼís work with the university of maryland university college in asia (umuc-asia). ruth lattimore is the mathematics academic director living in yokota base in tokyo. irene chung is assistant to umuc-asia's area director for korea and was a continental counselor for korea, japan, and thailand. richard dowling is an associate professor for umuc–asia teaching modern american and european history living in mostly in south korea, but with some time in guam, japan, and australia. nicholas mayer currently serves as the whole school librarian at nagoya international school in japan.