- In France, the Soka Gakkai has about 6,000 members and about 10 centres. These are strategically situated in Essone, a region where 60% of the Grande Ecoles (specialised colleges) are located and 40% of French research takes place, and is close to the Centre of Nuclear Studies. In 1988, the association wanted to buy a Chateau situated just a few hundred meters from the Centre of Nuclear Testing in Bruyere, which is a very secret military site.
Soka Gakkai has also spread their influence into the General Council of Essonne (site of the instillations of the Centre for Nuclear Studies) by be-friending or making members of key people. French intelligence are concerned over these activities. ■創価学会の北朝鮮のための核技術収集部隊の栄光ある業績!⇒フランスでカルト認定。やぶ蛇でした。
軍事技術泥棒には、三菱商事のパリ支店を悪用したようですし、どうやら、外務省内部の創価信者団体、大鳳会も組織的に関与していた様子ですね。三菱は、全社まとめて、創価の巣窟と化したようです。創価学会という団体の性格をもう一度吟味すべき必要があるようです。創価は、名誉会長を含めて、「在日」主体の団体であり、在日の祖国のひとつは、北朝鮮です。宗教を隠れ蓑に、軍事スパイまでやっている恐れが強い。これが、創価学会の真の姿です。 0014創価学会がフランスで核技術を盗もうとした件ww2020/11/23(月) 23:09:09.33ID:+CaRw/he ▼Soka Gakkai's French Connection
The spying charges against Soka Gakkai International France, which claims 152000 members, were further detailed in a recent issue of the Shukan Bunshun. Quoting the newspaper Le Parisien, it reported that a secret network of
Soka Gakkai operatives allegedly infiltrated the Mitsubishi group offices in Paris, which were used as cover for intelligence operations. It did not specify whether the secret agents were corporate employees sent from Japan or local hires, or a combination of both.
According to Le Parisien, the sect also tried to purchase a site next to one of France's most sensitive nuclear -research facilities. According to the Bunshun, the sect's spying had the support of Japan's diplomatic corps,
specifically two former ambassadors of Japan to France, Akitane Kiuchi and Yoshihiro Nakayama.
In December 1992, Soka Gakkai-France pressed a libel suit against the newspaper Le Parisien in a Paris court for publishing charges that SGI-F agents had conducted nuclear spying. Nakayama filed a deposition as both an
individual and a Japanese government official on behalf of the plaintiff, Soka Gakkai. He attested to its peace-loving principles and record of good works overseas.
SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND TACL-vol 1, no. 10 January 1992
Soka Gakkai, a 10 million member Japanese religious lay organisation, has rejected demands by its 700 year old parent Nichiren Shoshu sect that it disband. The conflict surfaced about a year ago when Soka Gakkai leader Daisaku Ikeda criticised what he called the luxurious lifestyles of priests at Taisekiji Temple, Nichiren Shoshu's chief temple at the foot of Mount Fuji, and their authoritarian attitude towards the lay organisation. The Soka Gakkai or 'Value-creating Study Society', was founded in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. It claimed a membership of 3000 families in 1942, when Makiguchi, Josei Toda and other Soka Gakkai members were imprisoned by the Japanese wartime government. Makiguchi died in prison in 1944 but the movement was reconstituted under Toda after the war. By 1960, when Ikeda succeeded to the leadership, the Soka Gakkai had a membership of 750,000 households. In 1991, they claimed 13 million individual members in Japan, plus 1.26 million members in 115 countries overseas, including 600,000 in South Korea, 400,000 in Hong Kong and about 100,000 in the Philippines. Critics today doubt, that the membership actually exceeds 5 million in Japan. 0016SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:22:24.21ID:+CaRw/he But the Soka Gakkai is still the largest religious organisation in Japan and would be the richest and politically the most powerful. Its appearance is one of culture, humanitarianism, respectability, generosity and friendships between the association and the countries of its members. The first casualty of the Ideda-Nichiren war, may be the Komeito, or Clean Government Party (CGP), Japan's second largest opposition part, which was originally formed in the early 1960s by Junya Yano as the Soka Gakkai's political arm. Junya Yano lost his leadership of the CGP in 1989 when reports linked him to a businessman indicated for tax evasion. The first signs of open and public conflict between Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai, came in December 1990 when Ikeda was stripped of his title as 'sokoto', or head of all Nichiren lay believers, a position he held since his gaining the leadership of the Soka Gakkai in the 1960's. Since then, the most recent sign that all was still not well, was a mysterious newspaper ad addressed to all Soka Gakkai members from Taisekiji Temple saying that from 2 July 1991, all members seeking to make the 'Tozan' pilgrimage to Taisekiji for the viewing of the 'Daigohonzon' - a scroll carved by the sect founder, which is the central object of worship of the faith, would have to make arrangements through their local Nichiren temple instead of their Soka Gakkai branch.
Insiders in both camps immediately recognised this as a concealed announcement amounting to a declaration of war between them. 0017SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:23:23.89ID:+CaRw/he Isao Nozaki, Soka Gakkai vice-president said, "The priests are trying to assert their own authority and leadership over the Soka Gakkai movement...The presxent high priest and those around him have deviated from this spirit...They want to cut off Ideda and destroy the Soka Gakkai". Although the Nichiren headquarters have not spoken to the media, a priest, speaking privately, said the clergymen believe that Ikeda wants to destroy the Nichiren priesthood and create his own religion. 'Ikeda tried once before about 10 years ago...That time he failed and he had to back down. Originally the intent of the Soka Gakkai was to propagate Nichiren doctrine to the world, but they have become rotten.' By requiring Soka Gakkai members to arrange pilgrimages through local temples rather than the Soka Gakkai association, the Nichiren priests hope to separate sincere believers in their doctrine from Ikeda loyalists. They also hope that within a few years, after all the pure believers have quit Soka Gakkai, that Nichiren Shoshu will ex-communicate the Soka Gakkai.
Even though the appearance of the Soka Gakkai is one of culture and respectability, there is another side to this sect that is also creating problems. 0018SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:24:00.82ID:+CaRw/he - Soka Gakkai was condemned in 1988 by a tribunal in Tokyo for bugging the telephone of the private home of the General Secretary of the Japanese Communist Party.
- Ikeda was found 'comforting' Manuel Noriega (at this time a disciple of Soka Gakkai) when America sanctioned Panama.
- In March 1990, a swirl of accusations over a mysterious transaction involving the Soka Gakkai, the Mitsubishi Corp and two Renoir paintings in which nearly 1. 5 billion yen had gone missing. Also involved in the fiasco are two Frenchmen who allegedly owned the paintings and have disappeared, because no one corresponding to their description has lived at their alleged addresses in Switzerland.
- The first evidence that politicians, who regularly use the stock market to raise campaign funds, received improper payments from Japan's top brokerage houses, came in August 1991 with the disclosure that the Soka Gakkai received more than 3 million dollars in improper payments. Because of the affiliation with the CGP, suspicions have fed renewed public outrage over what seems to be incomplete inquiries into these affairs.
- The organisation operates five cemeteries in Japan through a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corps. In May 1991, Soka Gakkai paid 640 million yen in profits from the sale of gravestones over the three year period ending in March 1990.
- In early 1990, the CGP was linked to the Parrot True Reason cult (PTR) in scandals that involved huge sums of money and therefore involving Soka Gakkai. The PTR, which was once an unknown group in Japan, but because of an obscure clause in the Japanese election law enabling a party that fields 25 people or more to have campaign vans and five free broadcasts per person on national TV, there is hardly a Japanese who has not seen the group dressed up in elephant costumes dancing on top of vans or listening to adherents exhorting the leader Shoko Asahara. 0019SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:25:00.66ID:+CaRw/he The innocent, kindergarten image of the PTR has been badly damaged, and it is now seen as a symbol of widespread aimlessness among the young and has caused considerable anguish to many Japanese parents. Mr Asahar has also been questioned over the disappearance, in mysterious circumstances, of a 34 year old lawyer, his wife and one year old son, who had been negotiating with cult members on behalf of parents demanding the return of teenage children converted by Mr Asahara.
He believes the supremacy of the parrot position in yoga and is believed by his followers to be able to levitate and to meditate under water for long periods without coming up for air. The parrot cult is perhaps the most visible of more than a thousand new religions in Japan. The linking of the CGP to the PTR has caused considerable damage to it.
- Equally damaging to the reputation of the CGP was an incident in early 1989, where just over 170 million yen in old but unused bills was found in an abandoned safe in a rubbish heap, which was traced to a chapter of Soka Gakkai. It had apparently been thrown out without being checked for its contents when the offices of the sects newspaper 'Seikyo Shimbun', moved in April 1989. It fuelled speculation that senior members of the group found more than just spiritual fulfillment through their faith.
- In France, the Soka Gakkai has about 6,000 members and about 10 centres. These are strategically situated in Essone, a region where 60% of the Grande Ecoles (specialised colleges) are located and 40% of French research takes place, and is close to the Centre of Nuclear Studies. In 1988, the association wanted to buy a Chateau situated just a few hundred meters from the Centre of Nuclear Testing in Bruyere, which is a very secret military site. 0020SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:25:33.12ID:+CaRw/he Soka Gakkai has also spread their influence into the General Council of Essonne (site of the instillations of the Centre for Nuclear Studies) by be-friending or making members of key people. French intelligence are concerned over these activities.
The Soka Gakkai, according to critics, is also known to play rough. In March 1991, 300 members of the Soka Gakkai Youth League allegedly, physically attacked 10 people at Kaishinji, a Nichiren temple in Fukuoka, and injured the chief priest and members of his family. The motive was, apparently, to intimidate the priests in the temple where about 100 families had severed ties with the Soka Gakkai.
A member of the Tokyo municipal assembly, recently published a 10 part series of articles harshly critical of Ikeda, said that he received threatening phone calls and a visit to his home by Soka Gakkai Youth League members. A similar occurrence happened to a free-lance journalist, who had to change his phone number after receiving more than 50 threatening phone calls a day, some of which were death threats.
The Soka Gakkai is secretive about its finances. Real estate and buildings, including the Tokyo headquarters and 800 elaborate meeting halls are believed to be worth more than 2 trillion yen (about 18. 5 billion Aust. dollars). Outsiders say the organisation also holds 400 billion yen in time deposits and trust accounts. Other estimates of Soka Gakkai's annual income are in the range of 100-170 billion yen per year.
The largest source of income are the annual 'zaimu' donations by members each July, which are not taxable. . Money is also earned from publications and from sales of tombstones and gravesites. 0021SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:26:18.43ID:+CaRw/he There is little doubt that these scandals and the emergence of open dispute between the Soka Gakkai and the Nichiren leaderships is intensely traumatic for many ordinary believers, who essentially must now choose between the temple and the society.
Although officially denied, one Soka Gakkai watcher says 20,000 members have formally resigned and another 100,000 have been inactive. A Nichiren priest claimed that as many as 10,000 families had left Soka Gakkai within two weeks of July 1991.
This could deal a major blow to the CGP, which relies heavily on grassroots canvassing efforts of Soka GAkkai members. Members reportedly fell away in May of the same year, when the Soka Gakkai announced it would conduct its own funeral services for its members.
Although Ikeda resigned as president of Soka Gakkai in 1979, he remains president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), and he is still the real power behind the scenes. His role has been to give spiritual guidance and nourishment. Ikeda has had highly publicised meetings with ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Philippine President Corazon Aquino and other world leaders. Under his leadership, SGI has become active in UN affairs and is a large contributor to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Ikeda, a recipient of the UN Peace Award and the UNHCR Humanitarian Award, has worked hard at his public relations image. While coveting a meeting with US President George Bush, and being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he does have some trouble with his image.
In 1988 one of his own followers, and a long-time Japanese Parliamentarian, Toshio Ohashi, then 62, denounced Ikeda in strong language. 'He's evil, a great hypocrite. On the surface he acts like a Buddha, but underneath he's a devil king. We have to bring him down. ' Ohashi was excommunicated from Soka GAkkai. 0022SOKA GAKKAI TOLD TO DISBAND2020/11/23(月) 23:26:55.35ID:+CaRw/he It appears that now many more will be excommunicated from Soka Gakkai - or from Nichiren Shoshu. In May 1991 another forma Soka GAkkai member denounced Ikeda. Norio Okubo, 48, took rather drastic demonstrative action to make his point.
He hired a crane and, with it, attempted to scale the third floor balcony of a Soka GAkkai building in Shinjuku, Japan. He hung a screen up at the scene which read: ''I will protest against fascism led by Ikeda' (Daisaku Ikeda, honorary President of Soka Gakkai).
In the process of his very early morning protest Okubo stumbled and accidentally injured himself seriously in the abdomen.
A spokesman for Soka Gakkai commented at the time, 'His extraordinary action is troublesome for us. ' The opposition of some lay members, and now from the Nichiren Priest, is bringing a lot more action that will be 'troublesome' for the exclusive and self-centred materialistic Buddhist cult with its promise of instant happiness through chanting.y 0023Soka Gakkai's French Connection2020/11/23(月) 23:31:51.00ID:+CaRw/he Soka Gakkai's French Connection
Japan Times Weekly Nov. 4, 1995
A strange thing happened at Fumihiro Joyu's first press conference at the Foreign correspondents' Club of Japan. A sleight-of-hand trick was performed in front of dozens of news cameras, and clearly, many people in the Japanese media were pretending not to notice.
Why did Joyu, the media spokeman of Aura Shinrinkyo, meet the foreign press April 4? Because he knew that the Japanese media would never report the evidence that he was prepared to present.
What Joyu claimed -- and what was recorded on videotape by major networks -- is that Aum's "self-defense" squads, which have been accused of various kidnappings and murders, were trained and organized by former members of the Soka Gakkai using methods developed by SG's own security forces.
Joyu identified 27 Aum self-defense personnel as former Soka Gakkai members, and charged that many of these individuals mysteriously disappeared after the Sakamoto and Kariya kidnappings and before the subway gassing. One member of Aum's self-defense team described his training in strong-arm tactics in Soka Gakkai, and claimed that identical techniques were used in Aum.
These revelations could still have a direct bearing on the puzzling series of violent crimes attributed to Aum. So why haven't they broadcast or reported by the print media? 0024Soka Gakkai's French Connection2020/11/23(月) 23:32:17.72ID:+CaRw/he Because, at the close of the press conference, a foreign male, posing as a Frenchman, claimed to have taken photographs that proved No. 7 Satyam was an operating chemical-weapons plant. The next part of his act was to accuse Joyu of lying. An investigation by the Weekly has shown that the cameraman was not French as he claimed to the Japanese media. The Embassy of Italy confirmed that he is an Italian citizen. A call to his talent agency revealed that he also worked as an advertising model for a major department store's menswear department a year before appearing as a dancer in a recent malt liquor commercial.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police categorically asserted that it was not physically possible for any photographer, much less a foreign one, to have taken the photos as claimed. The building's perimeter was heavily guarded, according to a police spokesman, and access was restricted to investigative officers.
An inquiry with district prosecutors indicated that any violation of restricted areas under police investigation constitutes a criminal offense (as well as grounds for deportation). So as not to further incriminate this individual, the Weekly is not releasing his name. (Several American and European journalists in Tokyo have also complained that they have been professionally slandered by this same person. )
What about the photos? The police are investigating their source. Why did this Italian poseur claim to be a Frenchman? According to European journalists, his past associations -- which provided journalistic legitimacy to his media activities in Tokyo -- were with Paris-based publications. Though his photos have also appeared in some Japanese magazines, his first major French association was with a Paris-based weekly magazine called VSD. What does VSD have to do with Soka Gakkai? 0025Soka Gakkai's French Connection2020/11/23(月) 23:32:47.29ID:+CaRw/he The acronym VSD, (pronounced vah-ess-day), which stands for Vendredi-Saraedi-Dimanche (Friday, Saturday, Sunday), is a racy scandal magazine (with an unusually large volume of stories on Japan) published by a Paris-based media group. In August. it was revealed that the VSD general director, Jean-Pierre Canat, is a high-level official of Soka Gakkai International France, and that the media group's companies have been used by the sect to penetrate French political circles.
The charges, published in the weekly L'Evenement du Jeudi, go much further: They allege that Canat may be linked to a break-in and eavesdropping at the EDJ offices, and that France's counterintelligence service suspects Soka Gakkai of having been engaged in espionage.
In an article titled Ombre Japonaise (Japanese Shadow), EDJ investigative reporter Serge Faubert explained that four auditors are currently reviewing the invoices of VSD to untangle Canat's web of financial dealings. When questioned by Faubert, the VSD president- general director, Francois Siegal, claimed the audit was ordered because Canat had led a high-flying lifestyle and became mired in debt. But it appears that the probe is being driven by France's counterintelligence service. It should be noted that the Aug. 17-23 issue in which Faubert's article appeared, and an earlier one exposing SGI-F, have mysteriously disappeared from the few Japanese libraries that stock French periodicals. The Weekly obtained a copy overseas. 0026Soka Gakkai's French Connection2020/11/23(月) 23:33:14.47ID:+CaRw/he The spying charges against Soka Gakkai International France, which claims 152000 members, were further detailed in a recent issue of the Shukan Bunshun. Quoting the newspaper Le Parisien, it reported that a secret network of Soka Gakkai operatives allegedly infiltrated the Mitsubishi group offices in Paris, which were used as cover for intelligence operations. It did not specify whether the secret agents were corporate employees sent from Japan or local hires, or a combination of both.
According to Le Parisien, the sect also tried to purchase a site next to one of France's most sensitive nuclear-research facilities. According to the Bunshun, the sect's spying had the support of Japan's diplomatic corps, specifically two former ambassadors of Japan to France, Akitane Kiuchi and Yoshihiro Nakayama.
In December 1992, Soka Gakkai-France pressed a libel suit against the newspaper Le Parisien in a Paris court for publishing charges that SGI-F agents had conducted nuclear spying. Nakayama filed a deposition as both an individual and a Japanese government official on behalf of the plaintiff, Soka Gakkai. He attested to its peace-loving principles and record of good works overseas.
Kiuchi, a former political secretary to the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka (who was linked to Soka Gakkai donations, in the book Tanaka Kakuei: Godfather of Japan, by Hirotatsu Fujiwara), joined the Foreign Ministry, and served as ambassador to Thailand and Malaysia before his appointment as envoy to France. He filed an affidavit certifying SGI's morals in November 1992, just four months after leaving his ambassadorial post.
Le Parisian won the libel case in lower court; Soka Gakkai, aided by the government officials' affidavits, managed to have the verdict overturned at the district level. In the near future, the case will be heard by France's Supreme Court, which will likely hear new evidence from the counterintelligence probe. 0027Soka Gakkai's French Connection2020/11/23(月) 23:34:00.72ID:+CaRw/he The sect's boldest intiative in France, according to Faubert of EDJ, has been its penetration of the human-rights group France-Libertes, led by Danielle Mitterrand. The Mitterrand affair started in 1988, when Kiuchi served as ambassador to Paris. In that year, an EDJ investigative team was tipped by an architect who complained that she had been cheated out of first prize in an architectural contest sponsored by the Mission of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution. The architect charged that Jean Pierre Canat had used his position with the VSD to influence the outcome, in revenge for her past criticisms against Soka Gakkai-France.
The subsequent media investigation revealed the sect's widespread use of bilateral cultural fronts to develop links with academic and political circles. The VSD opened the gates to the Bicentennial Mission, but it was just one of many stepping-stones for Soka Gakkai to political influence in Paris.
Since the mid-1970s, Daisaku Ikeda's key contact in France was the art critic and historian Rene Huyghe. As president of the Artistic Council of National Museums. Huyghe had organized several art exchanges -- French painting ex