December 19, 2025, World Tribune - World Tribune

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2025: Year in Review

JAN 1 WORLD TRIBUNE New Year’s Message Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada encourages members worldwide to unite in the Year of Soaring Higher Toward a Youthful Soka Gakkai Worldwide, repaying gratitude to Ikeda Sensei through action and actual proof. Highlighting key anniversaries, he stresses spreading the Mystic Law, illuminating a troubled world, deepening unity and

Ikeda Sensei

Courage, Conviction and Hope

This essay can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, chapter 20, installment 1, pp. 329–32. “There is nothing more precious than young people.” “Absolutely nothing can compare to the youth.” “Young people are a treasure—no, the greatest of all treasures!”—these have been Ikeda Sensei’s consistent messages. Sensei

Ikeda Sensei

The Problems of Youth Are Themselves Sources of Light

This essay can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, chapter 20, installment 2, pp. 332–35. With warm compassion and empathy, Ikeda Sensei wholeheartedly encourages young people. He urges them to learn to encourage themselves, to like themselves and to use their problems as fuel to shine ever

Experience

For the Next Thousand Years

Rejuvenated by our youth, I give my all to repay my debt of gratitude.

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Edvard Munch: Renewal of Life

Born in Norway in 1863, Edvard Munch was known for expressing intense emotions through his art, helping shape early Expressionism. Many of his works carry a dark, somber mood shaped by the loss of his mother and sister to illness during his childhood. His famous painting The Scream (1893) demonstrates how he conveyed emotions through