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Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored - Analysis of Factors Behind Critical Media Coverage
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Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored. Analysis of Factors Behind Critical Media Coverage. Welcome to Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored. This website created by the Soka Gakkai International Office of Public Information explains some of the factors behind Soka Gakkai's controversial reputation in Japan and its occasional critical media coverage. This site also details the outcomes of some specific court cases related to accusations brought against the organization and its honorary president, Daisaku Ikeda.
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Soka Gakkai - Nichiren Shoshu Split - Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored
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Soka Gakkai - Nichiren Shoshu Split. N November 1991, Nikken Abe, the high priest of the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist sect, excommunicated Soka Gakkai, its largest affiliated lay organization. Tensions between Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood had in fact existed almost from the inception of the lay organization in 1930. In the view of religious sociology scholars, the split was ultimately inevitable. As Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere state in their 1994 book, A Time to Chant. The clergy's mo...
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Media Rebuttals - Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored
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SGI-Korea Prevails in Arbitration Hearing Against Seoul Broadcasting Systems (SBS), October 27, 2005. The Press Arbitration Commission ordered SBS to broadcast a correction and retraction in response to a TV program that aired distorted coverage of SGI-Korea. Abridged version of "SGI-USA Sr. Vice President Guy McCloskey's Rebuttal to Forbes," which was printed in the "Readers Say" section, Forbes. Magazine, December 27, 2004. Magazine and statement from the editor in response. Magazine, September 20, 2004.
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Soka Gakkai and Japanese Media - Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored
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Soka Gakkai and Japanese Media. The Japanese public is constantly exposed to the headlines on the hanging advertisements in trains and subways. Even if you don't read them but just kind of notice the slander and gossip day after day, a negative image begins to develop and grow, and you start to become suspicious."- Noboru Okaniwa. S The Australian Financial Review. Japanese bookstores abound with books critical of the "tabloid" media. One of the highest-selling weeklies and a frequent source of anti-Soka...
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Revealing the Lies of Japanese Weekly Magazines. Research on Nichiren Shoshu Issues.
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History of Soka Gakkai - Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored
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History of Soka Gakkai. Soka Gakkai's greatest achievement lies in unleashing the power of the people, of those at the very lowest strata of society, and in revitalizing their lives. helping people become self-reliant is a challenge, but it is precisely what Soka Gakkai has done.- Minpei Sugiura. History of Soka Gakkai- A Japanese Grassroots Movement. A spiritual underpinning for his theory of value-creating education. THE RISE OF MILITARISM. The 1930s saw the rise of militaristic nationalism in Japan, c...
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Why Politics? - Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored
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When faced with outside criticism regarding its political activities, Soka Gakkai and the Komeito have resolved the issues in a forthright manner.the Komeito places its emphasis on the implementation of its welfare policies, while Soka Gakkai focuses its efforts on the realization of global peace." - Hiroshi Aruga. It is the explicit policy of Soka Gakkai International organizations outside Japan that they will not involve themselves in politics. POLITICS SHOULD SERVE PEOPLE". Who died in prison in 1944,...
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Análisis de la controversia: Cobertura negativa en los medios. Esta página electrónica, denominada Análisis de la controversia: Cobertura negativa en los medios , es un sitio de la Soka Gakkai del Japón, que ofrece información sobre los temas que han generado polémica en torno a la organización y sobre las críticas y los comentarios negativos que han sido divulgados por algunos medios de comunicación. Historia de la Soka Gakkai. Periodismo en el Japón. Separación de la Nichiren Shoshu.
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Allegations Disproved - Soka Gakkai Controversies Explored
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Allegations disproved: court findings. Allegations of Involvement in Councilwoman's Death Ruled Groundless. The death of Higashi Murayama Councilwoman Akiyo Asaki in September 1995 was concluded a suicide by investigating police and by the Tokyo public prosecutor's office. Allegations by her family that Soka Gakkai was behind her death were found libelous and without any supporting evidence in a series of court cases between 1995 and 2002. In February 1996 the tabloid magazine Shukan Shincho. Several Jap...