Nicholas wrote a diary in Russian for years , recording the pastoral life of early Orthodox Church of Japan as well as his thought and observation of Meiji era Japan . His diary was believed to have been burned and lost in Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 , but rediscovered by Kennosuke Nakamura , a Russian literary researcher , and published in 2004 as '' Dnevniki Sviatogo Nikolaia Iaponskogo '' ( 5 vols . St. Petersburg : Giperion , 2004 ) . Nakamura translated the whole diary into Japanese and published with his commentary in 2007
Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Nicholas of Japan