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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....
...Soka Gakkai members recognise that Japan’s constitution is 70 years old and was not drafted with particular care, says the official....
...Daisaku Ikeda, the leader of a Buddhist organisation called Soka Gakkai International. How physically fit are you? I don’t exercise....
...Its parent group, Soka Gakkai, claims 8m Japanese households are enrolled as members, and is perhaps the best-organised force in Japanese politics....
...Most of the dealers are putting on special shows, from Mughal sandstone carvings (at Sam Fogg) to contemporary Chinese landscapes (at Soka Art)....
...The LDP is so unpopular that some Soka Gakkai members refused to vote for it, instead switching to the DPJ....
...Hirotsugu Terasaki, a vice-president of Soka Gakkai, the Buddhist organisation behind Komeito, the junior coalition member, is dismissive of the opposition party’s credentials as a genuine alternative....
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