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Yakov Tikhai came from Bessarabia, in southwestern Russia, and arrived to Japan in 1874 to assist his brother the Archimandrite Anatoly at his assignment to the parish in Hakodate, Japan. Fr. Anatoly had succeeded Fr. Nicholas in the Hakodate parish when Fr. Nicholas transferred his mission headquarters to Tokyo. Later, Yabov was invited by Fr. Nicholas to serve as choirmaster at Suragadai Kanda.
Under the guidance of Bp. Nicholas, Yakov arranged the music for almost all the needed texts used in the [[Divine Liturgy]], [[major feast]]s, [[baptism]], funerals, the first week of [[Great Lent]], and [[Passion Week]]. As his successor, [[Victor Pokrovsky]] under Metr. [[Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan|Sergius]] needed to do, Yakov found it necessary to change the music to meet the different sense and structure of the Japanese language.
Yakov married Yelena Yokoi, daughter of a prominent Japanese family in 1876.