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Daisaku Ikeda, the founder of Soka University in Tokyo, met with Rudenstine for about 20 minutes yesterday afternoon...
...Soka University is sponsoring the program, which will eventually become a major research center at the university's California campus. Soka and the Kennedy School are organizing the program through the Kennedy School's Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA), with Ford Foundation Professor of International Studies John D. Montgomery heading up the project...
Last spring, Soka University officials contacted Montgomery at a Pacific Basin Conference and asked for his participation in the program. An expert on development, the environment and U.S. foreign policy, Montgomery once chaired Harvard's Department of Government. He has served as associate director of the African Studies Center at Boston University, and as dean of the faculty at Babson College...
...Soka University, the program's sponsor, is a Tokyo-based college of arts and sciences. It opened its Calabasas campus, known as Soka University, Los Angeles (SULA), as a language school in 1986. A new Soka University of America will begin operations in the near future...
Claiming 16 million adherents, Soka Gakkai (Value Creation Society) is by far the most successful of the new religious movements. It has its roots in ancient Buddhism, and followers are included in the statistics for Buddhists, not in the "new religions." Unlike other new Japanese sects, Soka Gakkai is intolerant, going so far as to preach that "Shinto is a heretical religion that we must destroy." Contrary to Japanese custom, Soka Gakkai also asks its believers to proselytize, and has moved abroad: it claims 200,000 members in the U.S., mainly in California. Soka Gakkai teaches that continual repetition...