1928

Jan 2

Born in Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan, to a family of seaweed farmers

1928

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944) (more>>) and Josei Toda (1900-58) (more>>), later to become first and second Soka Gakkai presidents, begin practicing Nichiren Buddhism.

1930

Nov 18

First printing of Makiguchi's The System of Value-creating Pedagogy (published by Soka Gakkai predecessor, Soka Kyoiku Gakkai). Date of publication marks establishment of Soka Gakkai (more>>)

1931

Sep 18

Japan places Manchuria under military occupation and installs puppet government

1937

Jul 7

Japanese troops invade China, Sino-Japanese War erupts

1940

Mar

Graduates from Haneda No. 2 Jinjo Elementary School

1940

Sep 27

Germany, Japan and Italy sign Tripartite Pact

1940

Oct 20

Makiguchi inaugurated as Soka Kyoiku Gakkai president

1941

Dec 7

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; war in the Pacific begins

1942

Mar

Graduates from Haginaka National School

1942

Apr

Begins working at Niigata Steelworks as part of youth labor corps

1943

Jul 6

Makiguchi and Toda arrested and jailed on charges of "lese majesty" and "violation of the Maintenance of the Public Order Act"

1944

Nov 18

Makiguchi dies from abuse and malnutrition at Tokyo Detention House in Sugamo

1944

Nov 24

U.S. commences B-29 bombing raids on Tokyo

1945

Mar 9-10

U.S. launches Tokyo fire bombing campaign

1945

May 24

Ikeda home destroyed in fire following Allied air raid on Tokyo. Family moves to temporary barracks

1945

Jul

Ikeda family moves to Omori Minami, Ota Ward, Tokyo

1945

Jul 3

Toda released from Toshima Penitentiary in Tokyo

1945

Aug 6

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

1945

Aug 9

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

1945

Aug 15

Japan surrenders to Allied forces and accepts Potsdam Declaration; World War II ends

1945

Oct

Toda establishes Nihon Shogakkan publishing company

1945

Oct 24

United Nations established

1946

Jan

Employed by Shobundo Printing Co.

1946

Mar

Soka Kyoiku Gakkai changes its name to Soka Gakkai

(Suppressed under the wartime military regime, the organization membership of some 3,000, is decimated)

1947

May 3

Japanese constitution adopted, guarantees freedom of religion

1947

May 30

Ikeda family learns eldest brother Kiichi killed in action in Burma (now Myanmar)

1947

Aug 14

Attends Soka Gakkai discussion meeting, where he encounters Josei Toda (1900-58), who will become his lifelong mentor [Link]

1947

Aug 24

Joins Soka Gakkai and begins practicing Nichiren Buddhism

1948

Mar

Graduates from Toyo Trade School

1948

Apr

Enrolls in night school extension of Taisei Gakuin (present-day Tokyo Fuji University College); majors in political science

1949

Jan 3

Employed by Nihon Shogakkan, Toda's publishing company; becomes editor of a boy's magazine

1949

Dec

Employed by Tokyo Construction Credit Association, Toda's new business venture, after Nihon Shogakkan suspends magazine publication

1950

Jun 25

Korean War erupts

1950

Oct

Employed by Okura Shoji Co., Toda's new business venture, after Tokyo Construction Credit Association suspends operations in August

1950

Nov

Promoted to marketing/sales manager at Okura Shoji

1951

Apr 20

Soka Gakkai publishes first issue of its organ newspaper Seikyo Shimbun

1951

May 3

Josei Toda inaugurated as 2nd Soka Gakkai president

1952

Apr 28

Soka Gakkai publishes Nichiren Daishonin Gosho zenshu (Collected Writings of Nichiren Daishonin), with editorial supervision by Nichiko Hori

1952

May 3

Marries Kaneko Shiraki and moves to Mita in Meguro Ward, Tokyo

1952

Sep 8

Soka Gakkai registered as religious organization

1953

Jan 2

Appointed youth division leader

1953

Apr 28

Birth of eldest son Hiromasa

1953

Jul 27

Korean War ends

1954

Mar 1

U.S. explodes hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll

1954

Dec 13

Appointed Public Relations Director of Soka Gakkai

1955

Jan 28

Birth of second son Shirohisa

1955

Nov 22

USSR successfully tests hydrogen bomb

1956

Jul 8

Soka Gakkai fields candidates in national elections for the first time, winning 3 seats

1956

Dec 10

Father, Nenokichi, dies at 68

1956

Dec 18

Japan admitted into United Nations

1957

Jul 3

Falsely arrested and detained on suspicion of violating election law in Osaka (later fully exonerated) (more>>)

1957

Jul 17

Released from prison

1957

Sep 8

Josei Toda issues Declaration for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (more>>)

1957

Dec 13

Soka Gakkai membership reaches 750,000 households

1958

Apr 2

Second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda dies

1958

Apr 11

Birth of youngest son Takahiro

1959

Jun 30

Appointed to the Soka Gakkai Executive Board

1960

May 3

Inaugurated as third Soka Gakkai president [Link]

1960

Oct 2

As first step to transform Soka Gakkai into a global movement, departs for U.S., Canada and Brazil

1961

Jan 28

Departs on goodwill tour of six Asian countries

1961

Mar 27

Soka Gakkai membership reaches 1.85 million households

1961

Aug 13

Berlin Wall erected, dividing the German city for 28 years

1961

Oct 4

Departs on nine-country tour of Europe

1962

Jan 25

Osaka District Court exonerates Ikeda of July 1957 election law violation allegation [Link]

1962

Jan 27

Founds Institute of Oriental Philosophy in Hachioji, Tokyo [Link]

1962

Jan 29

Departs on six-country goodwill tour of the Middle East

1962

Oct 22

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Jul 27

Soka Gakkai membership reaches 3.6 million households

1963

Oct 18

Founds Min-On Concert Association in Tokyo, Japan [Link]

1964

May 12

Departs on tour of Australia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and India

1964

Aug 7

U.S. Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, leading to massive U.S. military involvement in Vietnam

1964

Nov 17

Founds Komeito Party [Link]

1964

Dec 2

Commences writing The Human Revolution, a novelized account of Soka Gakkai's history, in Okinawa [Link]

1965

Jul 15

Seikyo Shimbun becomes a daily newspaper

1966

Mar 6

Departs on tour of North and South America

1967

Oct 15

Meets for the first time with Konosuke Matsushita (1894-1989), founder of Panasonic Corp. and best-selling author on management philosophy, in Tokyo.

1967

Oct 30

Meets for the first time with Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972), Austrian thinker and founder of the first Pan-European movement, in Tokyo. The two collaborated on Bunmei nishi to higashi, 1972 (tentative translation: "Civilization, East and West") [Link]

1967

Nov 18

Founds Soka Schools System [Link]

1968

Apr

Tokyo Soka Junior High School and High School opens in Kodaira, Tokyo [Link]

1968

Sep 8

Publicly proposes the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China at a Student Division gathering in Tokyo [Link]

1970

Jan 28

Soka Gakkai membership reaches 7.5 million households

1970

May 3

Soka Gakkai disallows Komeito Party members from holding Soka Gakkai leadership positions. Komeito's complete autonomy reaffirmed. (more>>)

1971

Apr

Soka University opens in Hachioji, Tokyo [Link]

1972

May 5

Meets for the first time with British historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) at his home in London; the two collaborate on Choose Life (English edition, Oxford University Press, 1976)
[Link 1] [Link 2]

For list of other dialogues published, see RESOURCES > Records > Dialogues Published

1972

Sep 29

Normalization of Sino-Japanese relations

1973

Jan 27

Paris Peace Accords officially end U.S. military involvement in Vietnam conflict

1973

Sino-Soviet clashes escalate; Soviet troop buildup along the border with China reaches all-time high

1973

Apr

Kansai Soka Junior and Senior High Schools open in Katano, Osaka [Link]

1973

Oct 6

4th Arab-Israeli (Yom Kippur) War erupts

1973

Oct

The "1973 Oli Crisis" begins when members of OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries) proclaimed an oil embargo in response to the U.S. desision to re-supply the Isreeli military during the Yom Kippur war. It ends March 1974.

1974

May 18

Meets for the first time with André Malraux (1901-76), French author and statesman, in Tokyo. The two collaborated on Ningen kakumei to ningen no joken, 1976 (tentative translation: "Changes Within: Human Revolution vs. Human Condition") [Link]

1974

May 30

Visits China for the first time

1974

Jun 23

Soka Gakkai youth members launch a campaign to record wartime experiences, including the sufferings of A-bomb victims. Based on this, the first in a series of antiwar publications is published.

1974

Sep 8

Visits USSR for the first time and meets with Premier Aleksey Kosygin (1904-80) on Sep. 17
[Link 1] [Link 2]

1974

Dec 5

Visits China and meets with Premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976)
[Link 1] [Link 2]

1975

Jan 10

Soka Gakkai youth submit ten million signatures supporting the abolition of nuclear weapons to the United Nations

1975

Jan 26

Inaugurated as president of newly-established Soka Gakkai International (SGI) (more>>)

1975

Jan 26

Soka Gakkai International (SGI) established during a World Peace Conference on Guam with 51 countries represented

1975

May 26

Meets for the first time with Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, former Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space and later chair of the Women’s Committee of the USSR, in Moscow

1975

May 27

Delivers lecture titled "A New Road to East-West Cultural Exchange," at Moscow State University, USSR; receives his first honorary doctorate

For list of other lectures and honorary degrees, see Lectures Delivered and Academic Honors in RESOURCES

1976

Apr

Sapporo Soka Kindergarten opens in Hitsujigaoka, near Sapporo, Hokkaido

1976

Sep 6

Mother, Ichi, dies at 80

1978

Apr

Tokyo Soka Elementary School opens in Kodaira, Tokyo [Link]

1978

May 22

Submits Ten-Point Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament to First Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Disarmament (more>>)

1979

Apr 24

Resigns as Soka Gakkai president; continues as SGI president [Link]

1979

Apr 24

Hiroshi Hojo inaugurated as 4th Soka Gakkai president

1979

Soka Gakkai Youth Division Peace Conference established

1979

Aug 3

The Toda Peace Memorial Hall opens in Yokohama as an antiwar exhibition hall.

1979

Dec

USSR invades Afghanistan (1979-89)

1980

Aug

Soka Gakkai Student Division Peace Committee established

1980

Dec 18

Soka Gakkai Women's Peace Committee established (more>>)

1981

Apr

Soka Gakkai registered as an NGO with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

1981

Jul

Recognized as Poet Laureate by World Academy of Arts and Culture

1981

Jul 18

Hojo dies at 58; Einosuke Akiya inaugurated as 5th Soka Gakkai president

1981

Dec 20

Soka Gakkai registered as NGO of the UN Department of Public Information (UNDPI)

1982

Apr

Kansai Soka Elementary School opens in Hirakata, Osaka [Link]

1982

Jun 5

Submits Proposal for Disarmament and Abolition of Nuclear Weapons to Second Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Disarmament

1982

Jun 7

SGI launches "Nuclear Arms: Threat to Our World," an exhibition in support of the United Nations World Disarmament Campaign, at the UN Headquarters in New York concurrently with the General Assembly Second Special Session on Disarmament (more>>)

1983

Jan 25

First of annual peace proposals published

For list of available annual peace proposals, see RESOURCES > Written Works > Proposals

1983

May 12

SGI registered as an NGO of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN

1983

Aug 8

Receives United Nations Peace Medal

1983

Nov 3

Founds Tokyo Fuji Art Museum in Hachioji, Tokyo [Link]

1984

Mar 23

At Ikeda’s initiative, the Okinawa World Peace Monument is completed on the site of a dismantled U.S. military nuclear-missile base to symbolize Okinawa's transformation from a Cold War rampart to a cornerstone for peace.
(more>>)

1984

Oct 3

Second son Shirohisa dies from illness at 29

1985

Apr

Soka Women's College opens in Hachioji, Tokyo [Link]

1987

Feb

Soka University of America dedicates first campus in Calabasas, California, USA (The graduate program was later transferred to the Aliso Viejo campus.) (more>>)

1987

Feb 24

Meets for the first time with chemist, peace activist and two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (1901-94). The two collaborate on A Lifelong Quest for Peace, originally published in Japanese in 1990 and later translated into other languages including English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and French. [Link]

1988

Jun 1

Submits “Complete Disarmament as a Global Movement” to Third Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Disarmament

1989

Oct 11

Meets for the first time with physicist, anti-nuclear activist and Nobel peace laureate Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005), in Osaka. The two collaborated on A Quest for Global Peace, originally published in Japanese (2006) and translated into other languages including English, German and Italian. [Link]

1989

Oct 23

The SGI launches the exhibition "War and Peace: From a Century of War to a Century of Hope" at the UN Headquarters in New York in cooperation with two other NGOS and sponsorship of the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs.(more>>)

1989

Nov 9

Berlin Wall torn down

1989

Dec 3

The leaders of USA and USSR declare an end to the Cold War at the Malta Summit.

1990

Feb 11

Nelson Mandela freed from prison in South Africa; the white minority government and African National Congress begin negotiations to dismantle apartheid

1990

Mar 15

Mikhail Gorbachev sworn in as first USSR president

1990

Jul 27

Meets for the first time with then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at the Kremlin in Moscow. The two later collaborate on Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century, originally published in Japanese (1996) and translated into other languages including Russian, English, Icelandic, German and Korean.
[Link]

1990

Oct 31

Meets for the first time with Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress and the South African anti-apartheid movement, in Tokyo.

1991

Jan

Submits joint emergency appeal to President Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait before the Jan. 15, 1991 deadline set by multinational coalition forces following Iraq's invasion in 1990, together with Soviet writer Chingiz Aitmatov; British physicist Bernard Benson; The Club of Rome President, Ricardo Diez Hochleitner; UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor Zaragoza; and Nigerian pIaywright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka.

1991

Jan 17

30-nation coalition force led by the U.S. commences war on Iraq (Persian Gulf War), after Iraq refuses to withdraw from Kuwait

1991

Gulf War ceasefire declared; Iraq pulls out of Kuwait

1991

Jul 31

U.S. President George H. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), a bilateral treaty between the USA and the USSR on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. Its final implementation in late 2001 resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence.

1991

Nov 28

Nichiren Shoshu excommunicates Soka Gakkai membership (more>>)

1992

SGI-Brazil establishes the Soka Amazon Institute (formerly the Amazon Ecological Research Center), in line with Daisaku Ikeda’s environmental vision, in Manaus, Amazonas State, with a goal of conserving and revitalizing the Amazon ecosystem. (more>>)

1992

Soka Gakkai organizes a youth-led Voice Aid campaign in response to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia's (UNTAC) request and collected and donated 300,000 second-hand radios to support the smooth organization and administration of free and fair elections in Cambodia (1993).

1992

Apr 5

Meets with American-born violin virtuoso and conductor Sir Yehudi Menuhin (1916-99) in Tokyo

1992

Sep

Hong Kong Soka Kindergarten opens in Hong Kong

1993

Jan

Soka Preschool (formerly Singapore Soka Kindergarten) opens in Singapore

1993

Jan 30

Meets with American civil rights leader Rosa Parks (1913-2005) in Los Angeles, California, USA

1993

Feb 9

Meets for the first time with president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters Austregésilo de Athayde (1898-1993), a writer, journalist and human rights champion who played a major role in the drafting of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, in Rio de Janeiro. The two later collaborated on Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century, first published in Japanese in 1995 and later in Portuguese, then in English (2009, I.B. Tauris) [Link]

1993

Aug 6

Commences writing The New Human Revolution in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. The series picks up Soka Gakkai's history where The Human Revolution left off [Link]

1993

Sep 24

Founds Boston Research Center for the 21st Century in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (renamed the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in 2009) [Link]

1995

Jan 17

The Great Hanshin Earthquake (magnitude 7.3) causes extensive damage in Kobe, Japan, and over 6,000 fatalities

1995

Apr

Malaysia Soka Kindergarten opens in Selangor, Malaysia

1995

Nov 16

Meets for the first time with renowned contemporary Chinese writer Jin Yong at his home in Hong Kong. The two collaborated on Kyokujitsu no seiki o motomete (tentative translation: "Compassionate Light in Asia"), first published in Japanese (1998) then in traditional and simplified Chinese.

1995

Nov 23

SGI Charter established (more>>)

1995

Dec 1

Founds Makiguchi Foundation for Education in Tokyo, Japan [Link]

1995

Dec 8

Meets for the first time with Argentinian Nobel peace laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in Tokyo. The two collaborated on a dialogue that was serialized in The Journal of Oriental Studies beginning in 2007.

1996

Feb 11

Founds Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research (renamed Toda Peace Institute in 2017) in Tokyo, Japan [Link]

1996

Mar 14

Meets for the first time with celebrated Chinese calligrapher and painter Fang Zhaoling (1914-2006) in Hong Kong. [Link]

1997

May

Sanskrit Lotus Sutra Fragments from the Lushun Museum Collection, Facsimile Edition and Romanized Text, the first of the Soka Gakkai’s Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series published. (more>>)

1998

Oct 26

SGI presents petition with more than 13 million signatures in support of Abolition 2000, a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons led by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, to the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General at New York UN HQ

1999

Jun

Victory Over Violence (VOV) launched by the SGI-USA youth as a grassroots movement to inspire young people throughout the world to identify and counteract the root causes of violence in their own lives and in their communities. (more>>)

2001

May

Soka University of America opens campus in Aliso Viejo, California, USA [Link]

2001

Jun

Brazil Soka Kindergarten opens in São Paulo, Brazil

2001

Sep 11

Terrorists attack the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., USA

2002

Aug

Issues proposal entitled The Challenge of Global Empowerment: Education for a Sustainable Future calling for education to be the basis of progress toward a sustainable future, coinciding with the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002. (more>>)

2002

Aug

SGI and the Earth Charter Initiative collaborate on the Seeds of Change exhibition on sustainable development, first shown during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. The SGI also supported the production by the Earth Council of the film, A Quiet Revolution , featuring individuals who initiated action to solve local environmental problems. (more>>)

2003

Feb

Brazil Soka School opens in São Paulo, Brazil

2003

Mar 20

U.S.-led forces invade Iraq

2004

Jul

SGI membership grows to 190 countries

2005

Jan 26

SGI celebrates 30th anniversary, membership reaches some 12 million

2005

Feb 18

Meets with 2004 Nobel peace laureate and Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai in Tokyo.

2005

Nov 18

Soka Gakkai celebrates 75th anniversary

2006

Aug

Submits proposal on UN reform titled “Fulfilling the Mission: Empowering the UN,” calling for a People’s Decade for Nuclear Abolition

2006

Oct 7

Receives 200th honorary doctorate from Beijing Normal University

For list of other honorary degrees, see RESOURCES > Records > Academic Honors

2006

Nov 9

Minoru Harada, formerly vice general director of the Soka Gakkai, inaugurated as sixth Soka Gakkai president

2007

Mar 26

Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, and Rev. Ian Paisley, the head of the Democratic Unionist Party, meet face-to-face for the first time and hash out an agreement for a power-sharing government, bringing what may be definitive closure to centuries-old conflict in Ireland.

2007

Apr 12

Meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who was on an official state visit to Japan

2007

Sep 8

SGI launches the People's Decade for Nuclear Abolition web site and the exibition "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit" in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Josei Toda's Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, at the Cooper Union New York, at a civil society forum specifically aimed at mobilizing youth. (more>>)

2008

Mar

Soka Happiness Kindergarten opens in Seoul, South Korea [Link]

2008

May 8

Meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao, who was on an official state visit to Japan [Link]

2008

Sep 15

U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapses, symbolizing what many described as the worst global financial and economic crisis in a century.

2009

Mar 21

Awarded 250th academic honor from Denmark's University College South [Link]

For list of other honorary degrees, see RESOURCES > Records > Academic Honors

2009

Sep 8

Issues “Building Global Solidarity Toward Nuclear Abolition,” a proposal outlining a concrete five-point plan toward the abolition of nuclear weapons. The date of the proposal commemorated the anniversary of Josei Toda's antinuclear declaration made on September 8, 1957.

2010

Apr 8

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), replacing the one signed in 1991. The new pact aims to reduce by one-third the long-range nuclear weapon arsenals of both countries.

2010

Jun 29

SGI and the Earth Charter Initiative create“Seeds of Hope: Visions of sustainability, steps toward change,” an exhibition on sustainability and people’s empowerment. (more>>)

2010

Nov 21

Awarded 300th academic honor (Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters) from the University of Massachusetts Boston [Link]

For list of other honorary degrees, see RESOURCES > Records > Academic Honors

2011

Mar 11

The Great East Japan Earthquake (9.0 magnitude) triggers a devastating tsunami, causing widespread destruction in the coastal area and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, causing massive displacement and some 20,000 confirmed as dead or missing

2011

Dec 15

U.S. winds down war in Iraq

2012

Jun 5

Issues "For a Sustainable Global Society: Learning for Empowerment and Leadership," a proposal putting forward ideas related to the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The proposal stresses the empowerment of individuals and communities as being vital to achieving a sustainable global society.

2012

Jun 20

UN Conference on Sustainable Development opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2013

Nov

The Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen-rufu, a prayer hall dedicated to world peace, opens in Shinanomachi, Tokyo

2013

Nov 5

Leads Gohonzon (mandala) enshrinement ceremony at the Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen-rufu, a prayer hall dedicated to world peace

2017

Sep 1

The Constitution of the Soka Gakkai established

2018

Aug 6

Completes the final installment of The New Human Revolution, a serialized 30-volume novel charting the development of Soka Gakkai, both in Japan and internationally, on August 6, the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The final installment was carried in the Seikyo Shimbun on September 8, 2018, the anniversary of his mentor Josei Toda’s Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons issued in 1957.

2020

Mar 11

The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic

2021

Jan 22

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force

2021

Nov 18

Soka Gakkai releases a newly revised edition of Nichiren Daishonin gosho zenshu (The Collected Writings of Nichiren Daishonin), under the supervision of Daisaku Ikeda

2021

Nov 18

Soka Gakkai adopts The Soka Gakkai Charter outlining the organization’s purposes, ideals and guiding principles in the realm of social engagement

2022

Apr 28

Awarded an honorary doctorate from Chungbuk National University in South Korea, the 400th academic honor he received

2023

Nov 15

Passes away from natural causes at his residence in Shinjuku, Tokyo, at 95 years of age

2023

Nov 18

Soka Gakkai publishes Soka Gakkai kyogaku yoko (tentative translation: The Doctrinal Foundations of the Soka Gakkai), supervised by Daisaku Ikeda

2023

Nov 23

Soka Gakkai holds Memorial Service for Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023), Honorary President of Soka Gakkai and President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), at the Toda Memorial Auditorium in Sugamo, Tokyo. The service is broadcast live to 1,000 venues throughout the 47 prefectures of Japan