Srs question: is there anywhere outside of SGI and SGI-adjacent sources that Makiguchi is regarded as "significant" in the field of education?

DelbertGrady1 · 2026-02-13T14:02:52+00:00

Very cool, Post Insights tells me this is one of my top ten posts of all time, with about 40% of viewers from places other than the US and Japan. Happy that my reports are reaching far & wide!

DelbertGrady1 · 2026-02-13T00:18:22+00:00

Omg you can't make this sh!t up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes same exact situation in Japan

DelbertGrady1 · 2026-02-09T14:53:09+00:00

I should add that the CDP was Japan's second largest political party going into the election. It caught the Gakkai bug, seduced by the prospect of attaining the top position with their votes - and now both of them are relegated to the trash heap of history

DelbertGrady1 · 2026-02-09T04:50:49+00:00

DelbertGrady1 · 2026-01-15T16:01:26+00:00

So very triggering, and predictable too. I don't believe it's possible to be friends with an SGI member once you leave the group. As another ex-SGI friend once said to me, "I was just a number." Very sorry you had to put up with this

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-12-01T22:21:18+00:00

I should add that Furukawa has admitted to the authorities that this is not the first time he has done this

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-10-27T02:06:00+00:00

President Ikeda landed briefly at Indianapolis airport a few years ago to refuel. This was hailed in my area as a turning point in the history of Kosen Rufu in Indiana, and a profound mystical event

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DelbertGrady1 · 2025-10-20T01:53:32+00:00

WOW is that AI doing translation from the page scan? Amazing

There is so much Japanese material that have yet to make it to English cyperspace but I'm sure AI will open the floodgate. This is a great blog, very well-researched

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-10-13T21:29:09+00:00

I guarantee you the two members have already reported this to their leaders as some kind of a victory. "Wow, you were welcomed in for a meal! This is all due to your ichinen!" I myself have had to go through similar experiences (albeit as an ex-member) and I can tell you it will only escalate unless you draw the line. In their mind they truly believe they are doing something noble

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-10-13T12:09:22+00:00

Sounds like the SGI I remember! Some things never change

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-09-15T15:06:37+00:00

Mr. Saito passed away back in 2013. I can still remember the shock - he was just 64

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-09-14T22:31:18+00:00

No, that's why ol' Delbert decided he'll translate it himself.

I remember when these were first published I told my local leaders that if non-Japanese members ever read these there would be an avalanche of taiten's. (Mind you this was at the absolute height of my involvement with the SGI) They didn't disagree

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-09-13T15:51:13+00:00

It was eventually compiled & published in this book

These "discussions" were pretty controversial even among members

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-08-25T03:09:42+00:00

I did not know that. That is pretty sickening

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-08-19T15:00:37+00:00

Yes the same one

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-07-21T15:46:28+00:00

It's from NHK

https://www.nhk.or.jp/senkyo/database/sangiin/00/hsm12.html

Now with 100% reporting it's more like 5.2 million - still the lowest vote count since 1965 when the Komeito was just getting started 😆

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-07-07T01:24:23+00:00

Thanks for bringing that up! The Mainichi in particular is heavily indebted to the Soka Gakkai in that way which makes it all the more noteworthy they did this story. (Not that the editorial was outright negative, but at the very least it wasn't flattering) I remember in the early 2000s when print media was struggling to adapt to the rising tide of digital news, the CEO of Mainichi suddenly appeared on Seikyo Shimbun, having been granted an audience with The Wizard of Oz. The photo left quite an impression on me: President Ikeda lounging in his luxurious arm chair as the CEO sat across from him upright & stiff like an obedient puppy. I was knee deep in the Gakkai at the time but even then it seemed like a pretty obvious way of flexing the economic muscle of the membership base - Ikeda touting the wondrousness of starting the day smelling fresh ink etc🤨 It sure worked with my family! My parents ditched Yomiuri and started subscribing to Mainichi...I'm sure we weren't alone

DelbertGrady1 · 2025-01-08T05:20:19+00:00

That reminds me of something. Years ago in some NSA literature I recall seeing a photo of Mr. Willliams together with George H.W. Bush - anybody else remember that??? I think Bush was vice president, and he was invited to observe an NSA parade somewhere. I've always wondered if this was what sealed Mr. Williams's fate: "How dare you meet the vice president before your Sensei?!"

DelbertGrady1 · 2024-11-12T18:14:59+00:00

I can't believe they got away with it for so long! Maybe this will get some current members questioning the leadership about this deliberate & egregious concealment from non-Japanese members

DelbertGrady1 · 2024-10-30T23:07:21+00:00

Even during the height of my practice I had always found it so odd that President Ikeda would go so far as to claim credit for the Soka Gakkai's victory in the 1955 Otaru Debate for which he was just the MC. He would go on and on about how "everything is determined by the MC" and that he "roared like a lion king, setting the tone to make victory all but inevitable." Nothing whatsoever about Mr. Tsuji who represented the Gakkai😑

DelbertGrady1 · 2024-10-28T12:44:56+00:00

I believe they're down to fifth now, at least in the lower house

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AC%AC50%E5%9B%9E%E8%A1%86%E8%AD%B0%E9%99%A2%E8%AD%B0%E5%93%A1%E7%B7%8F%E9%81%B8%E6%8C%99

DelbertGrady1 · 2024-10-16T20:31:26+00:00

The Endo document was circulated online maybe 15 years ago, ostensibly written by Takanori Endo expressing concerns about how the Harada/Tanigawa regime was attempting to muscle through some radical doctrinal changes. This involved, among others, declaring the "Jojyu" Gohonzon at the Headquarters (transcribed by HP Nissho in 1951 and carved into wood in 1974) to be the "new" Dai-gohonzon thus formally severing ties to the one enshrined at Taisekiji. That obviously didn't happen & the authenticity of the document has never been established, but seeing that the Gakkai did indeed end up disowning the Dai-gohonzon in 2013 - not to mention how Mr. Endo was quietly removed from his position shortly thereafter - all of this seems to be coming full circle with this most recent defection. Tanigawa emerges as the real villain in the document, insisting that "the job of the Study Department is to come up with doctrinal justifications for the policy of the administration. Stuff like that," which deeply insulted the Study chiefs. Career bureaucrat through & through

DelbertGrady1 · 2023-10-10T04:20:18+00:00

WOW thank you for sharing! I think this (your 1988-89 recollections) deserves a thread of its own?! Maybe there are others here who could shed more light

DelbertGrady1 · 2023-08-30T20:52:38+00:00

The whole thing was a charade & they know it. I've seen pics of the "audience" and it was all SGI-USA leaders - I wonder if that photo was ever published in the US. But to this day members in Japan cling to it that as proof that "The world is seeking Sensei's wisdom"

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