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The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was translated from the November 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge.  Through their selfless struggles to spread the Mystic Law, the Soka Gakkai’s three founding presidents paved the way forward, demonstrating that obstacles are a springboard to enlightenment. As Nichiren Daishonin writes,

The following is a summary of Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s speech at the Fourth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial at the Tokyo Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, on Sept. 7, 2024. It was translated from the Sept. 14, 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. Congratulations on

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the October 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Ikeda Sensei embarked on the first of his overseas travels for kosen-rufu on Oct. 2, 1960. About a month earlier, he had visited the hometown of his mentor, second Soka Gakkai

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the September 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Today’s Soka Gakkai was founded on two pillars. The first is the selfless dedication of the first three presidents to propagate Nichiren Buddhism, and the second is the philosophy of profound

The following is a summary of Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s speech at the Third Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial, held at the Tokyo Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, June 29, 2024. It was translated from the July 6, 2024, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. Many congratulations

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the July 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. On this day of releaseand of imprisonmentare to be found the bondsof mentor and disciple. Ikeda Sensei penned this poem in tribute to the solemn history of mentor and disciple that

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the June 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Nurturing our future division members is a most sacred endeavor that will shape the next generation. This month marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the high school division, on

The following is a summary of Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s speech at the Second Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial, held at the Kansai Toda Memorial Auditorium in Toyonaka City, Osaka, April 13, 2024. It was translated from the April 21, 2024, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. Congratulations

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the May 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. May 3 is both Soka Gakkai Day and Soka Gakkai Mothers Day honoring all the women of Soka, who are worthy of the utmost praise. On May 3, 1972, during a

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the April 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. Seventy years ago, in the month of April, standing at the site of Aoba Castle in Sendai, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda declared: “The Soka Gakkai must build its castle

The following message by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada was published in the March 2024 issue of the Soka Gakkai’s monthly study journal, Daibyakurenge. On March 1, 1954, the young Daisaku Ikeda wrote in his diary: “Spring has arrived at long last. The gentle breezes, the budding greenery, the mist—all seem to be drawing in

by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada Around the world, our fellow members are brimming with enthusiasm to share Nichiren Buddhism with their friends. Of course, the origins of this enthusiastic spirit can be found in the historic February Campaign led by a youthful Daisaku Ikeda. This was the 1952 campaign in which he initiated a

by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada Every New Year brings to mind a memory I have of Ikeda Sensei. Thirty years ago [in 1994], he attended New Year’s gongyo sessions at the Soka Gakkai Headquarters in Shinanomachi, Tokyo, on January 1, and at the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall in Hachioji on the 2nd. Not only

The following is an excerpted version of Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s speech at the 1st Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial Marking the Fresh Departure for a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide, held at the Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo, Jan. 7, 2024. It was translated from the Jan. 14, 2024, issue

2024 New Year’s Message

Let’s always treasure our youth.

Affirming the importance of the basics of faith, practice and study through dialogue.

The following address was given by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada at the opening of the SGI Guam Peace and Culture Center in Tamuning, Guam, on Jan. 21, 2023. Håfa Adai! Håfa tatatmanu hamyo? (Are you doing well?) My heartfelt congratulations on the long-awaited dedication of the SGI Guam Ikeda Peace and Culture Center! I

Congratulations to all of you today on the Ninth Headquarters Leaders Meeting, held in commemoration of Soka Gakkai Day and Soka Gakkai Mother’s Day! … Fifty years ago in May, Ikeda Sensei began engaging in dialogue with the eminent British historian Arnold J. Toynbee. While half a century has passed since then, their foresight shines

These are excerpts of Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s address, made during the Eighth Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting Toward Our Centennial, held on March 6, 2022, in conjunction with the Second Youth Division Leaders Meeting in Yokohama, Japan. The text originally appeared in the March 7, 2022, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo