Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (3rd from L), a Japanese Buddhist priest based in New York, and other leaders from major religions including Shintoism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, offer silent prayers on March 11, 2012, at a park in New York, at 2:46 p.m., the local time in Japan when the magnitude-9.0 quake hit the northeastern part of the country a year earlier, at a memorial event for the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (R front), a Japanese Buddhist priest based in New York, and other leaders from major religions including Shintoism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, walk in a procession with Japanese residents and New Yorkers from a park to a church in New York at a memorial event on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan.

Buddhist priest trying to help quake victims, drawing from 9/11

Buddhist priest trying to help quake victims, drawing from 9/11

NEW YORK, United States - New York-based Buddhist priest T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki takes part in a preparatory meeting at the Riverside Church in the city on March 24, 2011 for a memorial service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.

Decade later, 4 New York lives forever transformed by 9/11

Decade later, 4 New York lives forever transformed by 9/11

NEW YORK, United States - Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (L) is pictured in Central Park with Judy Kuriansky, a prominent New York psychologist, on Aug. 8, 2011 after a meeting to discuss plans for a 9/11 lantern floating ceremony, which includes remembering Japan's March 11 tsunami victims. The annual event includes setting 108 paper lanterns down the Hudson River. (Kyodo)

Buddhist priest trying to help quake victims, drawing from 9/11

Buddhist priest trying to help quake victims, drawing from 9/11

NEW YORK, United States - New York-based Buddhist priest T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki takes part in a preparatory meeting at the Riverside Church in the city on March 24, 2011 for a memorial service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan. (Kyodo)

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (3rd from L), a Japanese Buddhist priest based in New York, and other leaders from major religions including Shintoism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, offer silent prayers on March 11, 2012, at a park in New York, at 2:46 p.m., the local time in Japan when the magnitude-9.0 quake hit the northeastern part of the country a year earlier, at a memorial event for the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

Interfaith memorial event in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (R front), a Japanese Buddhist priest based in New York, and other leaders from major religions including Shintoism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, walk in a procession with Japanese residents and New Yorkers from a park to a church in New York at a memorial event on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)

Japanese monk Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, Rabbi Alan Brill

Japanese monk Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, Rabbi Alan Brill

Japanese monk Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (R) poses with Rabbi Alan Brill at the latter's home in New Jersey on Nov. 19, 2018. Nakagaki holds his new book, which is aimed at educating the Western world about the swastika's Eastern roots. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese monk Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, Rabbi Alan Brill

Japanese monk Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, Rabbi Alan Brill

Japanese monk Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (L) poses with Rabbi Alan Brill at the latter's home in New Jersey on Nov. 19, 2018. Nakagaki holds his new book, which is aimed at educating the Western world about the swastika's Eastern roots. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo