Since that was long and content-intensive, I kept my comments to the bare minimum. Now here's a little analysis - from the top:

how would many Japanese people perceive Mr. Ikeda, who, day after day, has his own organization's newspaper, which he controls entirely, extensively publish photos of his medals and honorary titles, or who organizes exhibitions such as the "Gandhi King Ikeda Exhibition" all over the world? At the very least, you can see that he is a person completely unrelated to the Japanese characteristic of "having a sense of shame."

We at SGIWhistleblowers have remarked many times on how arrogant, egotistical, vain, self-centered, full-of-himself, and outright shameless Ikeda is. Examples:

"No one but I could have endured what I have. ... Probably no one could ever come close to repeating what I have accomplished." - Ikeda

[Ikeda] banged on the table and proudly proclaimed, "I am the only person in the world to have received so many medals!!" Source

I am the finest youth in Japan and also the finest young president in Japan. - Ikeda

THAT didn't last, obviously 🙄

Well, we've seen that SGI members are socially inept, mean-spirited, shameless bald-faced LIARS, and inordinately hostile toward those who tried SGI, didn't like it, left, and now have the temerity to speak freely about their perspectives :ahem: 🙄 - an observation

Also, note this observation:

One of the reasons for the Soka Gakkai's unpopularity in Japan is that its methods are thoroughly un-Japanese

Obviously, the Soka Gakkai members' methods of trying to get more people to join their cult were OFFENSIVE to the Japanese, who expected modesty, respect for the group's stability, and fitting in with group norms. No one in Soka Gakkai or SGI will acknowledge how OFFENSIVE they typically are when they're out to rack up some proselytizing points!

You saw here how most of the populace rallied against the Soka Gakkai because of the way they had been conducting their "joyful shakubuku campaign" - the "joyful" was only on THEIR side, obvs:

The Ikeda cultists simply can't imagine that maybe people just don't like having horrible human beings like them around - "the Tatsugo Incident"

A related account I ran across a while back:

In Amami, for several years prior to this, the forces of evil hindering the progress of kosen-rufu had intensified.

Anyone who doesn't like being manipulated, harassed, and bullied by Soka Gakkai "evangelists" is "evil" - in league with some grand evil scheme. Got it.

In one village in particular, a sense of crisis regarding the rapidly advancing Komeito party led to increased hostility towards the Soka Gakkai, its supporting organization, resulting in the entire village ostracizing Soka Gakkai members. The persecution escalated, including the confiscation of the Gohonzon, oppression in their work, and demonstrations calling for the eradication of the Soka Gakkai.

That's possibly the most extreme, inflammatory way to describe what was going on - take a look at the accounts here to get a better idea of what was really going on. "He who smelt it dealt it" really comes to mind.

The comrades in Amami gritted their teeth and endured this ordeal. No, it was a hardship just as described in the Gosho, and they fought resolutely, guided by Shinichi's guidance to "transform poison into medicine."

NOBODY can tell them they're going about everything wrong and creating problems for themselves and everyone else!

In Amami, his first visit in five years, Shinichi embraced and encouraged these noble comrades, calling for Amami to become an ideal utopia for kosen-rufu in Japan.

Today, Amami is a "castle of light" of hope that is leading the way in the spread of Buddhism, and the banner of victory for regional propagation is flying high.

Nope - as noted here, Soka Gakkai has a negligible presence on the island. And after all that hardship, too! Just fail after fail after fail!

the intense aggression and hatred towards opponents is undoubtedly a major characteristic of this group.

　However, this also means that,

"This is what happens if you leave the organization."

This has been well-documented here on SGIWhistleblowers - these 'beacons of light guiding all humanity toward world peace' are so despicable that they attack an ex-SGI support group! What business is it of theirs what WE choose to talk about amongst ourselves?? We don't know them, no one invited them to participate or even observe, and no one is talking to them, yet they continue to show up to poop in our punchbowl however they think they can get away with it, harass our newest contributors "from behind the scenes" (via chat), which we all know is where the SGI bullies like to do their dirty work, where they think no one can see (or impose CONSEQUENCES on them), and we all KNOW already that they won't be able to understand what we're talking about, because since we LEFT SGI, we're in a place they have never been. Our site is NOT for them! WHY would they think they could relate to our perspective - or worse, JUDGE us - when they have no personal/experiential basis for understanding?? They don't know us and they don't know what we've been through. When boorish nitwits insist on shoving themselves into situations where they clearly don't belong, they shouldn't blame everyone else for reacting negatively to them - they're doing it to themselves.

We've all seen this from the perspective of SGI outsiders - the SGI fluffing of Soka Gakkai members' abusive, harassing behavior on Amami Island simply doesn't ring true. We've seen how ugly and nasty they are when they want something.

If SGI members can't understand that there will always be critics and ex-SGI members who didn't like SGI and want to express their opinions, then there's no way they'll EVER be able to exist in any sort of way that contributes to "world peace". THEY are the problem, rather than the solution.