{"id":4302,"date":"2023-11-23T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2023-12-07T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:40:51","slug":"news-significant-events-in-daisaku-ikedas-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/news-significant-events-in-daisaku-ikedas-life\/","title":{"rendered":"[NEWS] Significant Events in Daisaku Ikeda&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Translated from Seikyo Shimbun article published on 19 November 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2, 1928<br \/>\nBorn in current Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan<\/li>\n<li>August 14, 1947<br \/>\nAttended Soka Gakkai discussion meeting, where he encounters Josei Toda who became his lifelong mentor<\/li>\n<li>August 24, 1947<br \/>\nJoined Soka Gakkai and begins practicing Nichiren\u2019s Buddhism<\/li>\n<li>January 1952<br \/>\nAppointed as an advisor to Tokyo\u2019s Kamata Chapter, initiated the Kamata February Campaign<\/li>\n<li>May 3, 1952<br \/>\nMarries Kaneko Shiraki and moves to Mita in Meguro Ward, Tokyo<\/li>\n<li>January 2, 1953<br \/>\nAppointed as Young Men\u2019s First Corps leader<\/li>\n<li>April 2, 1953<br \/>\nAppointed as Tokyo Bunkyo Chapter leader<\/li>\n<li>March 30, 1954<br \/>\nAppointed as Soka Gakkai Youth Division Chief of Staff<\/li>\n<li>July 1956<br \/>\nSoka Gakkai fields candidates in national elections at Osaka for the first time.<br \/>\nAchieved a dramatic victory where \u201cThe \u2018Impossible\u2019 Has Been Achieved!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>October 9, 1956<br \/>\nTook the lead in Yamaguchi campaign and direct the expansion of Kosen-rufu.<\/li>\n<li>March 16, 1958<br \/>\nCommemorate Kosen-rufu Day, where Toda Sensei entrusted Ikeda Sensei with the future of Kosen-rufu<\/li>\n<li>April 2, 1958<br \/>\n&lt;Toda Sensei passed away at the age of 58.&gt;<\/li>\n<li>June 30, 1958<br \/>\nAppointed to the Soka Gakkai\u2019s General Administrator, shouldering the full responsibility for the running the organisation.<\/li>\n<li>May 3, 1960<br \/>\nInaugurated as third Soka Gakkai President<\/li>\n<li>October 2, 1960<br \/>\nFirst overseas guidance trip<\/li>\n<li>October 18, 1963<br \/>\nFounded Min-on Concert Association in Tokyo, Japan<\/li>\n<li>November 17, 1964<br \/>\nKomeito\u2019s officially formed<\/li>\n<li>December 2, 1964<br \/>\nBegan writing the novel The Human Revolution<\/li>\n<li>April 1968<br \/>\nEstablished Soka Junior and Senior High Schools<\/li>\n<li>September 8, 1968<br \/>\nProposed the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations at Soka Gakkai Student Division General Meeting<\/li>\n<li>April 2, 1971<br \/>\nOpening of Soka University in Tokyo<\/li>\n<li>May 5, 1972<br \/>\nMet with British historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) for the first time at his home in London<\/li>\n<li>January 26, 1975<br \/>\nEstablished Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and inaugurated as president of SGI<\/li>\n<li>April 24, 1979<br \/>\nInaugurated as Honorary Soka Gakkai President<\/li>\n<li>January 25, 1983<br \/>\nPublished a Peace Proposal titled \u201cA New Proposal for Peace and Disarmament\u201d\u200b\u200b on Seikyo Shimbun to commemorate January 26, SGI Day<\/li>\n<li>August 8, 1983<br \/>\nReceives United Nations Peace Medal<\/li>\n<li>November 3, 1983<br \/>\nOfficial opening of Fuji Art Museum<\/li>\n<li>April 1985<br \/>\nOpening of Soka Women&#8217;s College<\/li>\n<li>August 6, 1993<br \/>\nCommences writing the serialised novel, The New Human Revolution<\/li>\n<li>June 26, 1996<br \/>\nVisited the Republic of Costa Rica in Central America and it makes his total overseas visits to 54 countries and territories.<\/li>\n<li>May 3, 2001<br \/>\nEstablished Soka University of America<\/li>\n<li>April 23, 2008<br \/>\nAnnounced at Headquarters Leaders meeting that Soka Gakkai expanded to 192 countries and territories<\/li>\n<li>November 5, 2013<br \/>\nOfficial Opening of the Hall of Great Vow for Kosen-rufu<\/li>\n<li>August 6, 2018<br \/>\nCompleted all 30 volumes of the novel &#8220;New Human Revolution&#8221;<br \/>\n(The number of serializations, including that of the novel \u201cHuman Revolution\u201d, totalled 7978)<\/li>\n<li>April 28, 2022<br \/>\nConfers Honorary Doctor of Education from Chungbuk National University in South Korea. The number of honorary academic titles awarded reaches 400.<\/li>\n<li>November 15, 2023<br \/>\nPassed away at the age of 95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seikyoonline.com\/article\/0209E3CF3E634CE86A9C7D31F72A6313\">https:\/\/www.seikyoonline.com\/article\/0209E3CF3E634CE86A9C7D31F72A6313<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seikyo Shimbun reports the list of significant events in Sensei\u2019s life.<br \/>\n<br \/><strong> Click here to read the translation of this featured article of Seikyo Shimbun <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23nov","category-news-feed","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}