Minoru Harada

Minoru Harada
Minoru Harada
6th President of Soka Gakkai
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 November 2006
Preceded by	Einosuke Akiya
Personal details
Born	November 8, 1941; Japan, Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku
Alma mater	University of Tokyo;

Minoru Harada (原田稔, Harada Minoru, born 8 November 1941) is a Japanese Buddhist leader. He is the sixth president of the Soka Gakkai from 9 November 2006.[1] He is also the Supreme Advisor of Sōka University and the Acting President of Soka Gakkai International (SGI).

In 1953, he became an adherent of Soka Gakkai (as one of the lay organizations of Nichiren Shōshū). He attended Tokyo Metropolitan Bunkyo High School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Bunkyo Secondary Education School). He graduated from the University of Tokyo with the Bachelor of Economics degree. According to Soka Gakkai, he was a left-wing protester and a student activist, participating in the demonstration into the National Diet Building in the 1960s.[2] He was the manager of the Student Division and the Youth Division of Soka Gakkai, and one of the Vice-Presidents of Soka Gakkai.

He became the sixth President of Soka Gakkai[3] on 9 November 2006 following the resignation of Einosuke Akiya.[1]

On 8 November 2014, (his birthday), Harada officially declared in the Seikyo Shimbun that the Dai Gohonzon image that was once venerated within the organization is no longer its Object of Worship, further disassociating Soka Gakkai from the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist sect.

Soka Gakkai Presidency

Preceded by Einosuke Akiya	6th President of Soka Gakkai 9 November 2006 - present	Succeeded by Incumbent

References

Minoru Harada Appointed as Soka Gakkai President | Soka Gakkai International (SGI) - press releases Tokyo, Nov 10, 2006 Retrieved April 7, 2016
大白蓮華2008年10月号P34-35「師弟に生き抜け！立正安国と第二室戸台風」
Seager, Richard Hughes (2006). Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the globalization of Buddhist humanism. University of California Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-520-24577-8.

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[MinoruHaradaAppointedasSokaGakkaiPresident-1] Minoru Harada Appointed as Soka Gakkai President | Soka Gakkai International (SGI) - press releases Tokyo, Nov 10, 2006 Retrieved April 7, 2016

[2] 大白蓮華2008年10月号P34-35「師弟に生き抜け！立正安国と第二室戸台風」

[3] Seager, Richard Hughes (2006). Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the globalization of Buddhist humanism. University of California Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-520-24577-8.