February 21, 2025, World Tribune

The following are excerpts from Ikeda Sensei’s speech at the First Nationwide Young Men’s and Young Women’s Division Leaders Meeting held at the Tokyo Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, on Jan. 11, 1997. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the most recent Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting on Jan. 11, 2025. It

All positions are based in Santa Monica, California, at the SGI-USA Headquarters. Active participation in SGI-USA activities is required. Please send resumes to jobs@sgi-usa.org. Full-Time Assistant Controller Candidates should have a four-year degree in accounting or finance with an accounting emphasis and at least eight years of professional accounting experience. Duties include managing the general

We might have a laundry list of regrets, but we don’t have to let them determine our lives today or tomorrow. In this episode, Jesse Thompson, of Columbus, Indiana, shares how he used his Buddhist practice to overcome shame and create the future he’d always dreamed of. Click here to watch or listen to the

Registration is now open for the SGI-USA Junior High School and High School conferences, which will be held separately for the first time this summer. High School Conference, June 27–30, 2025, Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, Calif. This conference is open to SGI-USA members in high school and those who will enter high school

In the wake of the Eaton Fire, I recall a lesson learned in a vow to become a doctor.

With the SGI-USA’s 2025 focus on fostering friendship, building community and raising successors, the World Tribune sat down with Tanushree Salvi-Young, the Northwest Mountain Region young women’s leader, to hear about how members in Boise are building friendship and community. World Tribune:Tanushree, thank you for talking with us. Please tell us a little about your

The Soka Gakkai’s network of life-to-life bonds was built through the efforts to personally encourage one person after another.

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was translated from the February 2025 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. The frontline of worldwide kosen-rufu is the discussion meeting. This month, youth-focused discussion meetings are being held across Japan. Let’s take this opportunity to joyfully celebrate the 125th anniversary of the

From 1983 to 2022, Ikeda Sensei issued 40 consecutive annual peace proposals on Jan. 26 to mark the SGI’s establishment in 1975. In these peace proposals, Sensei explored the interrelation between core Buddhist concepts and the diverse challenges the world faces—such as disarmament, environmental degradation and human rights—and provided concrete suggestions toward their resolution. In

Ikeda Sensei’s proposals could be said to have started in 1966, when in a speech he called for an immediate ceasefire in the Vietnam War. Then came his Proposal for the Normalization of Sino-Japanese Relations in 1968. Over the next two decades, Sensei submitted several other proposals, including two to the first and second U.N.

How Korean entertainment and television became tools of soft power.