It is now up to our successors in the youth division to solidly carry on this all important Soka spirit of mentor and disciple and ensure that it is passed on into the eternal future.​

In the spring of 1980, upon completing my fifth visit to China, I flew directly from Shanghai to Nagasaki to embark on a guidance tour of Kyushu — my first regional guidance tour in Japan since having been forced to step down as Soka Gakkai president the previous year.  After Nagasaki, I travelled to Fukuoka. There, I called out to my beloved disciples in Kyushu, who were deeply committed to working with me for kosen-rufu: “We must not let the banner of propagation fall! We must not let the flame of faith be extinguished!”​

From Kyushu, an area that had suffered so much on account of problems caused by the priesthood, I launched a powerful counteroffensive, determined to keep alive the spirit of selfless dedication to kosen-rufu that is the hallmark of Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism. With the awareness that this was the crucial moment to lay the foundation for the Soka Gakkai’s eternal victory, the members of Kyushu stood up together with me. When disciples follow the mentor’s lead in waging a struggle for kosen-rufu that accords with the time, their victory is assured. Our members in Kyushu have written just such a triumphant history.​

It is now up to our successors in the youth division to solidly carry on this all important Soka spirit of mentor and disciple and ensure that it is passed on into the eternal future.​

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