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My flight from Hokkaido had a stopover at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, and my mentor, Josei Toda, was there waiting to meet me. At that time, he said, “Daisaku, should death overtake you, I will rush to your side and throw myself upon you and accompany you in death.” There were tears in his eyes. I remember his warmth as he embraced my thin frame tightly. I was arrested by the Osaka Prefectural Police around 7:00 in the evening on July 3—inexplicably, the same time and date when my mentor had been released from prison twelve years earlier.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, pp. 299-300

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Mr. Makiguchi truly worked tirelessly to advance kosen-rufu, spreading the Mystic Law. Amid persecution by the authorities and while already at an advanced age, he conducted more than 240 discussion meetings (from May 1941 to June 1943, when he turned seventy-two). He also traveled alone to different regions and personally introduced some five hundred people to Nichiren Buddhism (from 1930, the year of the Soka Gakkai’s founding, to July 1943, when he was arrested).
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 259

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The student division’s mission, deeply imbued with the Soka Gakkai’s history at that time, is to develop leaders of the Mystic Law who are committed to living their lives together with the people, protecting the people and fighting for the people. June 2025 Living Buddhism, pp. 51-52

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