12．Soka Gakkai and Komei Party Criminal

It’s Incredible Because… This is Just the Tip of the Iceberg !

According to the Gosho, “As Buddhism declines, society descends in chaos, Buddhism is likened to a person’s body while society is like its shadow. If the body is bent, so is its shadow.” It is only natural for the Soka Caldai members to manifest the actual proof of “the shadow being best” since they have Buddhism has been thoroughly twisted. learned the wrong way to practice in the Soka Gakkai where the Law of Buddhism has been thoughly.

To reveal the truth of the Soka Gakkai, we share with you some of the crimes, from the oldest to the most recent, committed by Soka Gakkai memben, in hopes that other Gakkai members will not repeat the same mistakes

Case of Kidnapping and Murder of Yoshinobu (1963)

The criminal Tamotsu Obara was a dedicated Soka Gakkai member who didn’t miss daily Gongyo. It is said that he chanted Daimoku with appreciation in front of the altar upon which he had placed the ransom money.

Case of Robbery and Murder of a Jeweler (1984)

The criminal and former police sergeant, Kazuo Sawachi was a Soka Gakkai member. He shared his experience of “having received a benefit” at the Chapter’s General Meeting in Chiba, saying that he had been able to pay his debt with the money he gained through a robbery and murder.

Corruption of Fujio Tashiro (member of the Komei Party) with gover carriers (1988)

Corruption of Katsuya Ikeda (member of the Komei Party) in relation to Recruit Co. Ltd. (1988)

Mother and Child Mutilation Murder Case in Nagano (1989)

Takashi Abe, a criminal and a Soka Gakkai member murdered both his wife and child. The body parts were discovered in a plastic bag also containing the “Seikyo Newspaper.”

Case of Fraudulent Selling of Uncultivated Fields (1989)

The criminal, Toshimitsu Sawai, president of Fukuho Produce Company was a Soka Gakkai i chapter chief.

Soka Gakkai’s 700 Million yen (approximately $ 6,800,000) Tax Evasion Case (1991)

The Regional Taxation Bureau discovered income gained from the sale of graves. As a result, the Gakkai revised their income statement adding 2,380,000,000 yen (approximately $ 23,200,000) and paid additional tax of approximately 700,000,000 yen (about $ 6,800,000). When you say, “revised declaration of income,” it may sound fine, but in reality it means tax evasion.

Case of a Ransom Kidnapping of a Nichiren Shoshu Priest (1989)

The Chief Priest of Jufukuji Temple in Oita Prefecture was kidnapped and a ransom of 600 million yen (approximately $ 5,830,000) was demanded by the criminal, Yasunori Masunaga, a devoted Gakkai block chief.

Violation of the Stimulant Drugs Control Act by an Incumbent Komei Party Member, City Councilman (1994)

The criminal, Hisao Otani was a member of the Komei Party and an incumbent Izumo City Councilman in Shimane Prefecture and, of course, a Gakkai member.

Violation of the Income Tax Law by a Member of the Komei Party (1993)

Kunio Igawa, a former member of the Komei Party and City Councilman took advantage of the system in which political contributions can be deducted from income tax. And he submitted a false balance sheet of political contributions to the Election Administration Committee. He used a certificate of tax deduction issued by the Committee to file a final income tax return and received a refund illegally.

Case of Assault by an Incumbent Public Prosecutor (1993)

Hitoshi Kanazawa, an incumbent public prosecutor of Hamamatsu Chapter in Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor’s Office assaulted a suspect under Investigation by forcing him to prostrate himself on the ground and slapping him in the face. Kanazawa graduated from Soka University and his experiences with Ikeda have been told in “the Seikyo Newspaper.”

Embezzlement of Union Dues by Director of Housing Complex Uniom (1994)

Soka Gakkai member, Masaaki Toshioka was director of the administration union for “Ohdori South Housing Complex” in Hikarigaoka, Nerima ward Tokyo. He was arrested for embezzling and spending union dues totaling 5 million yen (approximately $ 525,000) in order to cover his own company debts

 Sexual Harassment of Secretary by Komei Party Member of House ofCouncilors (1995)Councilors (1995)

Kimihito Katagami, a member of the House of Councilors and the Komei Party demanded kisses and sexual favors from his female secretary while in his own office in the House of Councilors’ building. The victimized woman, who was also a Soka Gakkai member, sued him.

Murder of a Tramp Along the Dotonbori River (1995)

When a group of three young men came upon an elderly homeless man sleepine in his cart, they attacked him, brutally beating him with iron pipes. They then threw him into the Dotonbori River, where he drowned. One of the three criminals was the son of a dedicated Soka Gakkai family and a Gakkai member himself.

Public Funds Embezzled by Higashimurayama Municipal Office Staff (1996)

Norio Iwadaru worked as a staff member in the Higashimurayama Municipal Office with responsibility for renting out the public hall and accounting. He was also a district leader in the Soka Gakkai. He abused his authority by embezzling approximately 13 million yen (approximately $ 126,300) in facility rental fees and was arrested.

Parent Stabbed His Own Child To Death (1996)

On August 4th, 1996, a company employee in Konosu City, Saitama Prefecture was stabbed to death with a Japanese sword. The murderer was the victim’s own father. During the investigation, the killer stated, “Now, I won’t have to be beaten up anymore “Both the parent and child were soka Gakkai members.

Komei Party Member Starved His Wife to Death (1997)

Ryoichi Akai, a member of the Komei Party, starved his wife to death by not feeding her for several days when she was suffering from severe nuerosis.

Insurance Money is Motive for Murder Attempt (1997)

On August 21st, 1997, Masahiro Nishida, a Soka Gakkai member, fired a gun in a failed attempt to kill a real estate businessman as part of a conspiracy with two other partners to collect insurance money.

Violation of the Narcotics Control Law by Famous Soka Gakkai Producer (1999)

In early 1975, Yoshinori Nishizaki, a Soka Gakkai member, gained fame for producing the successful animated cartoon, “Space Battleship Yamato.” In 1999, he was arrested and indicted for suspected violation of the Stimulant Drugs Control Act.

Attempted Murder and Robbery by Junior High Division Member (1999)

A 15-year old male Soka Gakkai member living in Kohto Ward attacked a policeman with a knife in an attempt to steal his police service revolver. He was arrested in the act of assault.

Komei Party Member – Prefecture Assemblyman Charged with Bid Rigging (1999)

In relation to a land development project in Hiratsuka City of Kanagawa Prefecture, Saburo Shiozawa, a Komei Party member and a Prefecture Assemblyman, leaked information on bidding to an ex-Soka Gakkai member in the construction industry. Shiozawa was arrested on suspicion of interference with the auction bidding.

Charged with Impregnating a Mentally Handicapped Woman (2000)

In a special institution for the mentally handicapped in Iwate Prefecture, a male staff member and vice-zone chief of the Soka Gakkai took advantage of a female resident lacking the intellectual capacity to comprehend her circumstances and got her pregnant.

Komei Party – Ward Councilman Arrested for Paying High School Girls for Sex (2000)

Hiroyoshi Matsumoto, a member of the Komei Party serving on the Edogawa Ward Council, was arrested for having paid some twenty senior high school girls to have sex with him. To make matters worse, he shamelessly videotaped their sexual acts.

Case of the 1st President of Soka University’s Shameless Son (2000)

Kazuaki Takamatsu, the son of the first president of Soka University, Mr. Kazuo Takamatsu, was a professor at a famous university and a vice-chapter chief in the Soka Gakkai. In spite of being married and having children, he had an extra-marital affair with a woman in her 20’s whom he met through the internet. His scandalous behavior became public when he was arrested on suspicion of selling obscene photographs depicting his intercourse with the woman. He had also been selling her underwear.

Cases of “Individual Conspicuous Punishment” for Soka Gakkai’s Grave Slander

From the Son of Daisaku Ikeda to Soka Gakkai Staff and Senior Leaders

Nichiren Daishonin stated in the Gosho as follows; “When 1, Nichiren, consider Buddhism, it is clear that nothing can surpass documentary and theoretical proofs. However, most important of all is actual proof.” “The sovereign and all those who look down on and despise the votary of the Lotus Sutra in the Latter Day of the Law may, at first lead eventless lives but in the end. they will all perish.”

As can be seen from these Gosho passages, the Daishonin teaches that those who act against the True Law will never fail to be strictly punished by the Buddha as actual proof.

Looking back, we see that slanderous acts and destruction of the correct Law had already begun within the Soka Gakkai when in 1977 they took the so-called “line of 77” their first deviation from the Daishonin’s teaching) Then, in 1991, Soka Gakkai calculatingly launched a full-scale revolt against Nichiren Shoshu, which culminated in their excommunication from Nichiren Shoshu in 1997. During this time, the members of the Soka Gakkai, from the central leadership down to the lowest level, have been continuously demonstrating actual proofs of the Buddha’s truly stringent punishment.

The following incidents include some which occurred prior to the Gakkai’s excommunication. Grave slanders committed by the Gakkai (Ikeda as the true Buddha, denial of the Heritage, etc.) were the causes, which resulted in the excommunication of the Gakkai and the negative actual proof in the lives of individuals, as documented below.

Incomprehensible Death of Daisaku Ikeda’s 2nd Oldest Son

On October 3rd, 1984, Daisaku Ikeda’s second oldest son, Shimohisa Ikeda, died in a Tokyo hospital at the young age of 29. The cause of death was gastric perforation (a hole in the stomach).

Following graduation from Soka University, Shimohisa Ikeda began his career as a staff employee of his alma mater. It is said that Daisaku Ikeda favored Shimohisa very much because his body type was similar to his own and as such, he was commonly regarded as his father’s likely successor to lead the Soka Gakkai in the future. So why is it that Shimohisa suddenly died of a gastric perforation which, unless left untreated, is not normally fatal? In the 10th volume of Daisaku Ikeda’s novel “Human Revolution,” in the chapter called “A Steep Path,” there is a passage which reads like a prediction of Ikeda’s own son’s death: “The father of Ittetsu Okada (who had made a counterfeit honzon) died in agony because of gastric perforation.” By making counterfeit wooden honzons, Ikeda, himself, committed just such a grave slander thereby troubling High Priest Nittatsu Shonin greatly. And just seven years after the slanders of 1977, Ikeda, like the character in his novel, lost his most beloved son and successor due to gastric perforation.

Mr. Hiroshi Hojo, the 4th President of Soka Gakkai Died Suddenly of Myocardial Infarction.

In July of 1981, Mr. Hiroshi Hojo, the 4th president of Soka Gakkai, died suddenly of myocardial infarction while taking a bath at his home. He was 58 years old. Throughout 3rd president Ikeda’s presidency, Mr. Hojo waited on Ikeda hand and foot as the senior vice president. After Ikeda resigned in 1979, to assume responsibility for the problems he, himself, had caused, Mr Hojo became the 4th president of the Soka Gakkai. Mr. Hojo alone shouldered the whole responsibility for cleaning up and covering up the many scandals produced by Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai. Mr. Hojo served as Ikeda’s confidant and was viewed as “a person who, more than anyone else, always devoted himself to Ikeda.” No one can reasonably escape the conclusion that Mr. Hojo died suddenly at the young age of 58 years old as karmic retribution for supporting Ikeda’s slanders.

Chapter Chief Run Over by a Train

Mr. H, a chapter chief in Kanagawa prefecture, was known for forcibly entering the homes of people who had left the Gakkai, in order to intimidate them into withdrawing their resignations from the Soka Gakkai. But that was before July 10th, 1991. That day, Mr. H. was waiting on a platform of the　Shinbashi train station as his train approached. When he tried to pick up his baggage in anticipation of boarding the train, he staggered and fell forward onto the tracks just as his train pulled in. The Tokaido Line express ran him over killing him instantly. Funeral services were conducted by the Soka Gakkai.

First Daughter of the Young Men’s Division Zone Chief Kidnapped and Murdered

On February 20, 1992, two female elementary school students in Fukuoka (girls A and Y) were kidnapped. The next day, their murdered bodies were found. One of the girls turned out to be the first daughter of Mr. N, Zone Chief of the Soka Gakkai Young Men’s Division. The other girl’s family belonged to Shoshinkai, which, just like the Soka Gakkai, had been excommunicated from Nichiren Shoshu due to their denial of the Heritage of the Law,

In the local newspaper, two pictures were lined up side by side; one was a picture of A’s funeral conducted by the Soka Gakkai and the other was the picture of Y’s funeral conducted by a Shoshinkai priest. This case is a good reminder of the strictness of causality regarding the negation of the Transmission of the Law.

Chapter Guidance Member Died During Meeting / Elevator Carrying His Coffin Falls to the Ground

Mr. B, a Chapter Guidance Member in Nagasaki Prefecture, was an active Soka Gakkai member for many years. He had dedicated himself to stopping Soka Gakkai members from leaving the organization, saying things like, “Those who leave the organization will fall into hell.”

In February 1992, while attending a Soka Gakkai meeting held at one of their activity centers, he fell in the bathroom and expired. Following his Gakkai funeral, the funeral party escorted Mr. B’s coffin out of the facility via an elevator. But when the relatives entered the elevator containing his coffin, the elevator cable snapped and although there was an automatic stop switch installed in the system, for some reason it didn’t work. Mr. B’s six relatives together with his coffin, free fell from the third floor, crashing to the ground. All six were injured in the bizarre incident.

Vice-Prefecture Chief’s Company Bankrupt / He Goes Missing

In 1993, Mr. T was acting as a Soka Gakkai Vice-Prefecture Chief in Fukuoka. He was the person with primary responsibility for publicly slandering the High Priest at meetings and when members visited the Gakkai Hall, he would bang the tables with his fists as he slandered Nichiren Shoshu.

Mr. T was also the director of a loan company but his company went bankrupt. It was discovered that Mr. T had been making fictitious transactions, some as huge as several hundreds of millions of yen each. In order to recover the company’s funds, Mr. T’s house and land were taken and all his personal property confiscated. Even so, there was still an enormous amount of debt remaining. Mr. T disappeared and hasn’t been heard from since.

The Hanshin Earthquake is Actual Proof of Soka Gakkai’s Fake Honzons

In the early dawn of January 17th, 1995, a giant earthquake hit the Awaji district of the Hanshin region. With a seismic intensity rating of seven, the earthquake and its accompanying fire caused 5,500 people to die, 27,000 to be injured and 110,000 houses to be damaged, making it the largest disaster since World War II. It had long been said that an earthquake would not occur in the Kobe region and yet, without warning, such a large-scale earthquake struck.

There must have been a significant cause to bring about such a catastrophic event.

1995 was designated by the Soka Gakkai organization as “the Year of Victory for the Kansai Region” and “the Era of Hyogo.” Perhaps for this reason, in the Hyogo region, the rate of replacement of legitimate Gohonzons with the Gakkai’s fake honzons was intensely promoted and accelerated.

On the 15th and 16th of January, immediately before the earthquake, fake honzons were distributed in large numbers at all Soka Gakkai halls in Hyogo. This also means that a significant number of Nichiren Shoshu’s Gohonzons which had been bestowed upon the members, were at the same time, disrespectfully treated the Soka Gakkai collected Nichiren Shoshu’s Gohonzons and burned them all!

Nichiren Daishonin states in his Gosho, “Slanderous monks fill the entire land, enraging the heavenly gods; comets cover the sky and the earth rolls like giant waves.” As this Gosho passage teaches, the Hanshin earthquake was nothing but an actual proof (effect) of the gravely slanderous honzons which suddenly filled the region, causing the earth to dance like waves. What happened to the Gakkai members who lived there? “All four chapters burned down,” said Mr. Mitsuru Miyamoto, headquarters chief in the area, “They were utterly destroyed,” (quote from Seikyo Newspaper dated February 15, 1995). As reported in their own newspaper, many Soka Gakkai members’ houses were destroyed and many Gakkai members were themselves crushed or burned to death in the rubble of their collapsed homes. Especially the Nagata ward the area where the Gakkai members were most densely concentrated experienced the highest level of devastation.

In an Airplane which Failed to Take Off…

On June 13th, 1996, a Garuda Indonesian Airlines plane failed in its attempt to take off from the Fukuoka Airport and crashed and burned. Despite the seriousness of the accident, most of the passengers and crew were able to safely evacuate through the emergency exits and ruptures in the body of the aircraft. Unfortunately, however, three passengers did lose their lives. Among them, Mr. I was a Soka Gakkai member. He and all the members of his family were devoted followers of Ikeda. His father, in particular, used to openly declare, “If Sensei (President Ikeda) went to hell, I would go with him.” Mr. O, another victim of the accident, had a daughter who was also an extremely devout Soka Gakkai member.

SGI Member, Victim in Brazilian Airplane Crash

On October 31st, 1996, a plane crashed into a residential neighborhood bursting into flames right after taking off from Kongonhas Airport in Sao Paulo. This air disaster took the lives of 98 people including the passengers, crew and residents in that area.
Among the dead passengers, there was a Brazilian Soka Gakkai member famous for making huge donations of money to the Soka Gakkai every year. Also, Mr. F, a plasterer, who was working on a building located where the plane crashed, was splashed with burning jet fuel and died crying for help with his whole body covered in flames.
Mr. F was devout Soka Gakkai member too. The local newspaper did a story about him including a photograph. Sadly, visible within the photo was the fake honzon he had worshiped. In contrast to this, Mr. K and Mr. A, who both belonging to Nichiren Shoshu Ichijoji Temple in Brazil, were able to escape this disastrous accident in a mystic way.

Young Men’s Division Member Slashed his Ex-Girlfriend 100 Times

On August 1st, 1997, a female piano teacher was murdered in Hamamatsu City. According to police, the murderer, Takashi Ohsumi, had been regularly dating the piano teacher but when the victim communicated her determination to break off the relationship, Ohsumi took it badly. On the day of her murder, he sneaked into her apartment and slashed her more than one hundred places on her body. Ohsumi was a Young Men’s Division member in the Soka Gakkai and his parent’s house was famous in their neighborhood as the home of a “dedicated Gakkai family.”

Men’s Division Senior Leader Committed Suicide by Fire

Mr. K, a senior leader of the Soka Gakkai’s Men’s Division in Sanjo City, Niigata prefecture, was very active in the organization, even taking the central role in conducting Gakkai funerals. He was such a fanatic Gakkai believer that he went so far as to try to make Hokkeko believers leave Nichiren Shoshu.

But after undergoing surgery for rectal cancer in April of 1999, he developed a serious neurosis. On November 21 of the same year, he tried to kill his sleeping wife by stabbing her in the neck with a kitchen knife. Bleeding, his wife ran out of the house seeking help. That was when Mr. K poured kerosene throughout his house and set it ablaze. The next morning, Mr. K’s carbonized body was found amidst the ashes of his home.

Soka Gakkai Member Fell From Bridge and Died Crushed Under His Car

Mr. T, a resident of Yamanashi prefecture, devoted himself to doing Gakkai activities together with his wife. He was a leader in his district and considered to be a close associate of the prefecture chief (a Soka Gakkai vice president).

On January 15, 1999, while Mr. T was driving his stationwagon in Yamanashi prefecture, he lost control of his car, crashed through a bridge railing and fell down to the flood plain alongside a river, 30 meters below. He was immediately crushed to death under his car. Since on the day of the accident, it was snowing, it seems that the car slipped on the frozen surface of the road. Mr. T was thrown out of his car, which then landed on and crushed him. If he had remained in the car, or the places where the car and his body fell were apart, he could have escaped his death. It was truly an unfortunate and tragic accident.

Shocking! An Attempted Murder Between Soka Gakkai Staff in the “Peace Hall”

On May 14, 1999, in broad daylight, an outrageous incident occurred in the Tachikawa Peace Hall in Tachikawa City, Tokyo.

The suspect, Mieko Tashiro, was one of the Gakkai’s Young Women’s Division staff (Vice-Headquarters’ Chief of the Young Women’s Division). She stabbed Mr. K a staff member of the Seikyo Newspaper Company (at that time, acting as a Chapter Chief and until the previous year, a national vice-secretary of the Young Men’s Division). The suspect, Tashiro, was caught in the act of the attempted murder.

It is said that the suspect, Tashiro, and Mr. K had been dating for about three years but when he told her, “Let’s break up since I found another woman,” Tashiro thought that she had no other choice but to kill him. It is also reported that when she saw him in a reception room of the “Peace Hall” she got a kitchen knife and stabbed Mr. K in the left side of his abdomen.

It seems that at the time they started to go out with each other, Mr. K already had a wife and children and the reason he wanted to clear up thi extra-marital affair was because he had found yet another woman. This is reall surprising and simply amazing. What on earth are the ethics of the Gakkai with absolutely no justification members? Because the Gakkai members falsly accused the High Priest, the successor of Nichiren Daishonin, of sexual misconduct, this too, is nothing but punishment from the Buddha. Causes the slanderers have made will never fail to come back to them.

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All of these actual proofs were serious crimes and accidents reported in the major public newspapers. But these are only the tip of the iceberg of what has been actually happening to millions of Soka Gakkai members throughout Japan. How sad and tragic!

Surely the Gakkai members are carrying out their activities not to make themselves unhappy and yet we see that the longer time elapses and the more slander they accumulate, the more serious and extensive the consequences for the Gakkai members become.

We sincerely hope that for their own sake and for the sake of those around them, the current Soka Gakkai members will leave the organization, the source of their misfortune, as soon as possible, and follow the correct path to Buddhahood without averting their eyes from this harsh reality.