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...“No one can match Soka Gakkai in terms of just numbers of people who go out and gather votes,” says McLaughlin, who has researched Soka Gakkai for years....
...The Abe family ties with the Unification Church are fascinating, but so too is the pivotal coalition role that the Komeito party — founded by members of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist movement and still closely...
...“Even if Soka Gakkai officially endorses Komeito, some members say, ‘right, let’s do it [campaign]’, others say, ‘not this time’,” says Hirotsugu Terasaki, vice-president of Soka Gakkai....
...But what he can actually do depends on Komeito — which draws almost all of its support from the Soka Gakkai religious movement — and on the regional Osaka Ishin party, which is also needed for the supermajority...
...Daisaku Ikeda, the leader of a Buddhist organisation called Soka Gakkai International. How physically fit are you? I don’t exercise....
...Not only do its followers vote for Komeito candidates, but – at least until this election – they also turned out for LDP candidates when instructed to do so....
...First, expectations are so rock bottom that the Liberal Democrats can only do better than party members are suggesting....
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