Metropolitan Daniel was born on 5 September 1938 into a Japanese Orthodox family in Toyohashi, Aichi, and was baptized as Jude.
After he graduated with a degree in French literature from Aichi University in 1962, he studied theology at Tokyo Orthodox Seminary until 1965.
In 1999 his predecessor, Metropolitan Theodosius (Nagashima) of Japan died, and the Japanese Orthodox Church decided to elect three bishops and Jude Nushiro was considered as a good candidate for bishopric, as his wife had predeceased him.
[4] The administration of the website zapatriarha.ru then zeroed votes for Daniel and excluded him from a list of candidates, explaining his high ratings as the result of a "hacker attack".
[3] Daniel died on 10 August 2023, at the age of 84 at Kyoundo Hospital after respiratory failure due to interstitial lung disease.