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Essays

Bio Essays

Encountering Josei Toda
A Mother's Love
A Conversation with My Wife

Buddhist Essays

Excerpts from The Living Buddha
Excerpt from The Flower of Chinese Buddhism
Excerpts from The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra
­What Is Human Revolution?
Death Gives Greater Meaning to Life
The Buddhist View of Life and Death

Peace Essays

A Mirror
Strongholds for Peace
The Courage of Nonviolence
Religion Exists to Realize Peace, from The World is Yours to Change
Stop the Killing
Memories of My Eldest Brother

Educator Essays

The Dawn of a Century of Humanistic Education (Seikyo Shimbun newspaper, Jan. 1, 2000)
Be Creative Individuals, speech excerpt, Soka University, Apr. 9, 1973
Treasuring Every Child
Makiguchi's Philosophy of Education
­Teachers of My Childhood, from One by One
The Tradition of Soka University (Seikyo Shimbun newspaper, Mar. 15, 1998)

Culture Essays

The Flowering of Creative Life Force
Restoring Our Connections with the World
Fang Zhaoling
Brian Wildsmith
On Writing Children's Stories

Opinion Editorials

Bullying Reflects Problems in Adult Society (The Japan Times, Feb. 8, 2007)
The Promise of Dialogue: Moving Beyond the Use of Military Force (The Japan Times, Jan. 11, 2007)
­Extreme Poverty: The Gravest Violation of Human Rights (The Japan Times, Dec. 14, 2006)
Developing a Broader Concern: Clues to Living in a Stress-filled Society (The Japan Times, Nov. 9, 2006)
Restoring Our Connections with the World (The Japan Times, Oct. 12, 2006)
Emerging from the Nuclear Shadow (The Japan Times, Sep. 14, 2006)
Facing the Past, Embracing the Future (The Japan Times, Aug. 10, 2006)
Equal Rights for Women: Moving toward a Creative Partnership (The Japan Times, Jul. 13, 2006)
Planting Seeds of Hope in Japan's Youth (The Japan Times, Jun. 8, 2006)
'People's Diplomacy': A Power to Resist the Currents of History (The Japan Times, May 11, 2006)
The Arduous Birth of Democracy (Special to The Japan Times, Oct. 22, 2005)
The Power of Empathy (Special to The Japan Times, Aug. 9, 2005)
­­­Education for Sustainable Development (Special to The Japan Times, Nov. 22, 2004)
Our Power for Peace from Hope in a Dark Time
The SGI's Peace Movement from Buddhist Peacework
Challenge of Building Peace (Special to The Japan Times, Sep. 11, 2003)
The Evil Over which We Must Triumph from From the Ashes, A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America
A Human Revolution (The Japan Times, Apr. 12, 2007)
Realizing the Potential of an Aging Society (The Japan Times, Mar. 8, 2007)
Say No to Nukes in the Arctic (The Japan Times, Jan. 31, 2008)
Global Solidarity to Denuclearize (The Japan Times, Sep. 8, 2009)
Learning About Dignity (The Japan Times, Dec. 23, 2011)
Civil Society Must Push Nuke Ban (The Japan Times, Feb. 28, 2011)
The Courage to Rebuild (The Japan Times, Jun. 28, 2011)
Toward 2015--Calling for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (The Japan Times, Apr. 25, 2012)
Steps toward Nuke-free World (The Japan Times, Feb. 16, 2010)
East Asia Should Build Resilience Through Disaster-Relief Cooperation (The Japan Times, Mar. 7, 2014)
China and Japan: Vital Ties (The Japan Times, Feb. 25, 2013)
A Chain Reaction of Empowerment (The Japan Times, Nov. 5, 2014)
Calling for an Early Japan-China-South Korea Summit (The Japan Times, Mar. 6, 2015)
Action at Grass-roots Level Vital to Success of COP21 (The Japan Times, Dec. 21, 2015)
Education for Global Citizenship (The Hankyoreh, May 25, 2016)
The Beginning of the End for Nuclear Weapons? (IDN-InDepthNews, Mar. 2, 2016)
Empathy Key to Human Rights (The Japan Times, Dec. 7, 2016)
Time for a Treaty to Bring an End to Nuclear Danger (The Japan Times, Mar. 1, 2017)
Ban Treaty Offers Chance for a World Free of Nuclear Arms (The Japan Times, Jun. 6, 2017)
Heed the Voices of the Hibakusha Urging All States to Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (IDN-InDepthNews, Sep. 18, 2017)
Climate Change: A People-Centered Approach (IDN-InDepthNews, Sep. 19, 2019)
Compassionate Universities Hold Out Hope (Times of India, Sep. 23, 2019)
True, Undying Hope is a Conscious Decision (Times of India, Apr. 28, 2020)
Building a World That Leaves No One Behind (Times of India, Aug. 24, 2020)
Let Us Overcome the Pandemic Crisis Together (Times of India, Nov. 18, 2020)
Towards a New Renaissance of Life (Times of India, Feb. 4, 2021)
Focus on Treasuring Every Individual (Times of India, Jun. 9, 2021)
One Who Loves Himself Should Not Harm Others (Times of India, Sep. 8, 2021)
Times of India Op Ed Sep 8 2021
Sowing Seeds of Hope and Action Where We Are (Times of India, Nov. 18, 2021)
Let’s Create a Virtuous Cycle of Shared Concern (Times of India, Feb. 11, 2022)
Where All Can Savor the Joy of Being Alive (Times of India, May 3, 2022)
Shining a Light on Women’s Empowerment (Times of India, Jun. 20, 2022)
A Jeweled Canopy of Human Solidarity (Times of India, Aug. 24, 2022)
Tuning In to Self-reflection for Peace’s Sake (Times of India, Oct. 29, 2022)
Building an Ideal World Steadily with Our Own Hands (The Free Press Journal, India, Jan. 2, 2023)

Portraits of Global Citizens

Jose Abueva—Refusing to Hate
Maria Teresa Escoda Roxas—Mother of Peace, Mother of Culture
Aleksey N. Kosygin—Advocate of Peace in the Midst of the Cold War
Kenneth D. Kaunda&mdash:First President of the Republic of Zambia
Fang Zhaoling—Paintings of the Heart
Chingiz Aitmatov—Kyrgyz Writer
Wangari Maathai—The Spirit of Reverence for Life
Nelson Mandela—Lion of Freedom
Brian Wildsmith—Opening the Door to a World of Dreams, Hope and Magic
Rosa Parks—Just One Word
Zhou Enlai—A Great Leader of the People
My Meeting with President Gorbachev

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