the japanese ambassador to spain was staying in paris when ʻabdu'l-bahá stayed there on his 1911 trip to the west and they met and had a prolonged conversation. in london in 1912, ʻabdu'l-bahá came in contact with the president of the japan women's university. it was this occasion that ʻabdu'l-bahá wrote the only prayer he wrote for the japanese. it says: