TagTsunesaburo Makuguchi

6/4 SGI Ikeda Kayo-kai Day  In 2009, Ikeda Sensei and his wife, Kaneko, visited the Soka Young Women’s Center in Shinanomachi, Tokyo, for the first time and presented five eternal guidelines for the young women’s division. To commemorate this day, June 4 is celebrated as SGI Ikeda Kayo-kai Day. 6/6 First Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, an educational reformer, openly opposed imperial Japan’s ever-growing nationalistic agenda and penchant for rote learning. He believed that educators create value by developing happy individuals who would go into society and contribute, in turn, to the well-being of others. His theory of value creation, later coined soka by his protégé, Josei Toda, focused

A Life Committed to Spreading Buddhism

November 18, 1930

Born on June 6, 1871, in the coastal village of Arahama in present-day Niigata Prefecture, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi experienced tremendous hardships from an early age. By age 6, his parents could no longer care for him, and they placed him with relatives. At 11, he quit school to work to support his impoverished family. And at