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Significant Dates This Year in Soka Gakkai History

1/3

75 years since Ikeda Sensei started working at Nihon Shogakkan, Josei Toda’s publishing company (1949)

3/30

70th anniversary of Sensei’s appointment as youth division chief of staff (1954)

4/1

50th anniversary of Sensei’s first overseas university lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles (1974)

5/3–5

45 years since Sensei inscribed the Calligraphies “Justice” and “Shared Struggle” in Kanagawa, Japan (1979)

5/6

70th anniversary of the founding of the Brass Band (1954)

5/13

60th anniversary of Sensei’s first visit to Australia (1964)

5/30

50th anniversary of Sensei’s first visit to China (1974)

6/7

60th anniversary of the founding of the high school division (1964)

9/8

50th anniversary of Sensei’s first visit to Russia (1974)

11/18

80 years since founding Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi died in prison for his beliefs (1944)

12/2

60 years since Sensei started writing The Human Revolution (1964)

12/5

50 Years since Sensei’s meeting with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (1974)

January 19, 2024, World Tribune, p. 4

Always Basing Ourselves on Nichiren’s Writings

New Board of Directors Appointment