 Elizabeth's charity enabled Miki Sawada to register her orphanage as a Non-Profit Organization for the first time, and opened the door for future charitable connections.According to Miki Sawada's autobiography, "黒い肌と白い心" (literally "Black Skin, White Soul"), while she was on a train in Gifu Prefecture of Japan in the earlier part of 1947, the dead body of a black baby wrapped in layers of newspaper and cloth fell from an overhead compartment onto her lap.By this time Miki Sawada who was married to an ambassador of Japan had traveled extensively prior to World War II.