2000s

Meeting with Nobel Peace laureate Sir Joseph Rotblat, with whom
Ikeda coauthored A Quest for Global Peace (Okinawa, February 2000) © Seikyo Shimbun Reunion with jazz artists Herbie Hancock (center) and
Wayne Shorter (right) (Tokyo, April 2000) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting with Henry Indangasi, chair of the Writers' Association
of Kenya (Tokyo, July 2000) © Seikyo Shimbun Taking in the view from a window at the Makiguchi Memorial Hall
with Lawrence E. Carter Sr. (center), Dean of the Martin Luther
King Jr. International Chapel, and George David Miller (left),
professor at Lewis University (Tokyo, September 2000) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting with Hazel Henderson, U.S.-based futurist and
revolutionary economist (Tokyo, October 2000) © Seikyo Shimbun Receiving an honorary doctorate of social science from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, December 2000) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting with former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid at
the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall (Tokyo, April 2002) © Seikyo Shimbun A reunion with Moscow State University Rector Dr. Victor Sadovnichy
at the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall (Tokyo, June 2002) © Seikyo Shimbun Encouraging SGI youth members from around the world
(Tokyo, September 2002) © Seikyo Shimbun Giving a special lecture at Soka University in Hachioji
(Tokyo, September 2002) © Seikyo Shimbun Thanking a member of the Fuji Fife-and-Drum Corps following a
performance (Tokyo, November 2002) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting with former cosmonaut Aleksander Serebrov at the
Seikyo Press building (Tokyo, January 2003) © Seikyo Shimbun Encouraging a pioneer member during a monthly Soka Gakkai
leaders meeting at the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall
(Tokyo, September 2003) © Seikyo Shimbun A snapshot of Ikeda and his wife, Kaneko, taken by his son, Hiromasa
in Karuizawa (Nagano Prefecture, 2004) © Seikyo Shimbun With Vice Chancellor Bharati Mukherjee during the conferral of an
honorary doctorate from Rabindra Bharati University of Kolkata,
India (Tokyo, February 2004) © Seikyo Shimbun Rector Lygia Lumina Pupatto conferring an honorary doctorate
from the State University of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, held at
Soka University in Hachioji (Tokyo, April 2004) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting with Capitol University (Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines)
founder Madame Laureana S. Rosales (Tokyo, June 2004) © Seikyo Shimbun With Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of
Kenya's Green Belt Movement (Tokyo, February 2005) © Seikyo Shimbun With Cho Moon Boo, former president of Jeju National University
of the Republic of Korea, with whom Ikeda has published
dialogues on education (Tokyo, April 2005) © Seikyo Shimbun Calling out to attendees during a Soka University and Soka
Women's College reunion (Tokyo, May 2005) © Seikyo Shimbun Thanking members of the China National Peking Opera at a special
show in Hachioji during their Japan tour at the invitation of the
Min-On Concert Association (Tokyo, June 2006) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting with Sarah Ann Wider, professor of English at Colgate
University and president of the Emerson Society (Tokyo, July 2006) © Seikyo Shimbun With UN Under-Secretary-General Anwarul Chowdhury
(Tokyo, August 2006) © Seikyo Shimbun Meeting Betty Williams (second from left), Nobel Peace laureate
and president of the World Centers of Compassion for Children
Int’l and Rusti Findley (left), exec. asst. (Tokyo, November 2006) © Seikyo Shimbun Jim Garrison, professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
president of the John Dewey Society, signs a visitors log at a Soka
Gakkai center in Karuizawa (Nagano Prefecture, August 2008) © Seikyo Shimbun Encouraging a graduate during the 39th graduation ceremony at
Tokyo Soka Schools in Kodaira (Tokyo, March 2009) © Seikyo Shimbun