Editing Maximilian Kolbe (section)

===Missionary work in Asia===
Between 1930 and 1936, Kolbe undertook a series of [[mission (Christian)|missions]] to [[East Asia]]. He arrived first in [[Shanghai]], China, but failed to gather a following there.<ref name="psb296"/> Next he moved to [[Japan]], where by 1931 he had founded a [[Order of Friars Minor Conventual|Franciscan monastery]], ''Mugenzai no Sono'' ({{lang|ja|無原罪の園}}, {{translation|Garden of the Immaculata}}),{{efn|After the friars learned that {{Transliteration|ja|mugenzai}} was a [[homonym]] for "endless sin," the monastery's name was later changed to {{lang|ja|Seibo no Kishi}} ({{translation|Knights of the Blessed Mother}}).<ref name=Doak />}} on the outskirts of [[Nagasaki]].<ref name=Doak>{{cite web | last=Doak | first=Kevin | title=St. Maximilian Kolbe in Japan | website=Benedict XVI Institute | date=31 July 2021 | url=https://benedictinstitute.org/2021/07/st-maximilian-kolbe-in-japan/ | access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> Because of its location within the hills outlying the city, the monastery was spared from destruction during the United States' [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|atomic bombing of Nagasaki]].<ref name="guardian"/><ref name=Doak />

Kolbe was persuaded to work in Japan by a group of Japanese students he encountered in Europe, who lamented the need for missionaries in their home country. After arriving in Japan, Kolbe acquired some facility in the local language, including basic literacy;<ref name=Doak /> the monastery soon began publishing a Japanese edition of the ''Knight of the Immaculata''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dewar |first=Diana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39hsAAAAIAAJ |title=Saint of Auschwitz: The Story of Maximilian Kolbe |date=1982 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-061901-5 |pages=70 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="psb296"/><ref name=ewtn/>

In mid-1932, Kolbe left Japan for [[Malabar region|Malabar]], India, where he founded another monastery, which has since closed.<ref name="Patron"/>{{self-published source|date=October 2022}}