1990s

Meeting with Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, in Calabasas
(California, February 1990) © Seikyo Shimbun
Alongside the Moskva River with his wife, Kaneko, during
his fifth visit to the Soviet Union (Moscow, July 1990) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with Cornell Capa, director of the International Center
of Photography and brother of war photojournalist Robert Capa
(Tokyo, October 1990) © Seikyo Shimbun
Welcoming Nelson Mandela of South Africa to Japan for the first
time, following his release from prison (Tokyo, October 1990) © Seikyo Shimbun
The Ikedas meet with Kyrgyz author and Ambassador Chinghiz
Aitmatov and his family at the Soviet Consulate in Luxembourg
(Luxembourg, June 1991) © Seikyo Shimbun
Calling out to SGI members who had come to greet him at the
train station (Luxembourg, June 1991) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin (Tokyo, April 1992) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with Rosa Parks, pioneer of the American civil rights
movement, in Calabasas (California, January 1993) © Seikyo Shimbun
Greeted by Brazilian journalist and human rights activist
Austregésilo de Athayde at Galeão International Airport
(Rio de Janeiro, February 1993) © Seikyo Shimbun
Taking a photo of youth staff at the Brazil SGI Nature and
Culture Center in Itapevi (São Paulo, March 1993) © Seikyo Shimbun
Arriving at the Malibu Training Center in Los Angeles
(California, September 1993) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with economist John Kenneth Galbraith at
Harvard University (Massachusetts, September 1993) © Seikyo Shimbun
The Ikedas serving Moscow University students during a banquet
(Moscow, May 1994) © Seikyo Shimbun
Joining a dance during an SGI-Italy commemorative general
meeting in Florence, Italy (Florence, May 1994) © Seikyo Shimbun
With local children atop a hill in Kathmandu (Nepal, November 1995) © Seikyo Shimbun
Flying over Miami on his way to Cuba (June 1996) © Seikyo Shimbun
Thanking the hotel staff following a meeting with Costa Rican
President José María Figueres in San José (Costa Rica, June 1996) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with Chinese painter and calligrapher Fang Zhaoling at the
SGI-Hong Kong Grand Culture Center (Hong Kong, February 1997) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with the Brazilian poet Thiago de Mello, lauded as the
protector of the Amazon (Tokyo, April 1997) © Seikyo Shimbun
Meeting with former Moscow State University Rector Anatoli
Logunov and his granddaughter Anna at the Makiguchi
Memorial Hall in Hachioji (Tokyo, April 1998) © Seikyo Shimbun
Being greeted by young children at Gimpo International Airport
in South Korea (Seoul, May 1998) © Seikyo Shimbun
Offering prayers at the Symbol of Eternal Peace at Soka Gakkai's
Okinawa Peace Memorial Park (Okinawa, February 1999) © Seikyo Shimbun
With Li Liyun, who served as Premier Zhou Enlai's interpreter during
Ikeda's meeting with him in December 1974 (Tokyo, November 1999) © Seikyo Shimbun
Chatting with his mother-in-law, Shizuko Shiraki, in Ota Ward
(Tokyo, November 1999) © Seikyo Shimbun