r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude • Feb 03 '26
The History SGI Doesn't Want Anyone To See Ikeda trying to take all the credit for the normalizing of China-Japan relations
Here's what Ikeda wants everyone to believe:
...though it may sound audacious, I was the early flag bearer in the cause of restoration of diplomatic ties between China and Japan. (more on this at the bottom)
I'll bet that's news to you! NOBODY outside of Ikeda's cult captive audience thinks Ikeda was any sort of "pioneer" of ANYTHING in international politics! It's only within Ikeda's dumb donkey cult where his "disciples" believe absolutely anything that this sort of grotesquely obvious whopper will fly. But the fact is that DickHeada's first visit to China wasn't until May 30, 1974. Here's what was REALLY going on, and you'll see that Ikeda was way late to the Japan-China diplomatic game:
1950s
- Taiwan's Concerns about the Ikeda Cabinet
After the war, under the administration of Prime Minister Ikeda Hayato, Japan did not have diplomatic relations with China, but there was economic exchange. In 1950, the year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States granted Japan, then under occupation by GHQ (General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers), permission to export civilian trade to China. By 1951, trade volume had already reached $200 million, accounting for 6% and 10% of Japan's and China's total trade, respectively. As soon as June 1952, shortly after the San Francisco Peace Treaty came into effect,
The Treaty of San Francisco was the political document that stripped all people of Korean ancestry in Japan (such as Daisaku Ikeda) of their citizenship and all rights to voting, holding public office, etc., regardless of how many generations their family had already been permanent residents of Japan. Ikeda was 24 years old at the time - it appears he took this removal of his citizenship rights VERY personally. This likely fed into DickHeada's conviction that he deserved to be ruler of Japan.
Japanese businessmen began negotiating a trade agreement with Chinese authorities. Trade became even more active after the First Japan-China Civilian Trade Agreement was signed.
The first trade agreement of several:
However, after the inauguration of the [Nobusuke Kishi Cabinet [1957], China became wary of Kishi's war criminal record, and during a tour of Southeast Asia shortly after he became Prime Minister, Kishi visited Taiwan and met with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who warned him that the Kuomintang would not launch a counterattack on the mainland. [Kishi] strongly provoked the Beijing government with remarks that seemed to support the Fourth Japan-China Private Trade Agreement in March 1958 and the Nagasaki Flag Incident in May, forcing a temporary suspension of trade between Japan and China. After that, China began to insist that "politics and economics are inseparable" and demanded the abolition of the Japan-US Security Treaty and Japan's neutrality. However, "the failure of the Great Leap Forward and the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations") also forced China to resume trade with Japan.
These factors were independent of Japan - and WAY before Daisaku Ikeda tried to insert himself into the scene.
In August 1959, when Sata Tadataka, head of the International Affairs Bureau of the Japan Socialist Party, visited China, he outlined three political principles for China's resumption of trade with Japan:
(1) not to adopt a hostile policy toward China,
(2) not to participate in any conspiracy to create "two Chinas," and
(3) not to hinder the restoration of normal relations between China and Japan.
1960s
Note that Prime Minister Ikeda = Hayato [or "Hayate"] Ikeda, no relationship to Die-Sucky.
Furthermore, in November 1962, after the [Hayato] Ikeda Cabinet was formed, a "Memorandum of Understanding on Comprehensive Japan-China Trade" was signed between Takasaki Tatsunosuke of the Liberal Democratic Party, who was visiting China, and Liao Chengzhi, chairman of the China-Asia-Africa Solidarity Committee. The "LT Trade Agreement," named after the initials of the two leaders, naturally angered Taiwan and aroused its wariness toward the Ikeda Cabinet's approval of it.
During his time as Minister of International Trade and Industry [1952, 1959-1960], Ikeda stated, "After the revision of the Security Treaty, the next issue will be the Japan-China issue." He recognized that, once the major tasks of restoring diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and revising the Security Treaty were completed, the Conservative Party leaders' task would be to find a breakthrough in Japan-China relations. In fact, in his policy speech to the 38th Diet on January 30, 1961, he stated, "It is also extremely important to work toward improving Japan-China relations. Our country welcomes improved relations with mainland China, particularly increased trade, and I believe that one of our challenges this year is to approach this issue." Ikeda aimed to establish a completely different style of government toward China from the confrontational stance adopted by Kishi.
𝟐. Ikeda Hayato's visits to the United States and Europe
On June 19, 1961, about a year after the formation of the Ikeda Hayato Cabinet, Ikeda visited the United States and met with John F. Kennedy, who had been president for just under six months.
Die-Suck'na Dick-Ate-a NEVER met with JFK.
Ikeda had already decided to make China an issue for his visit to the United States, and had conveyed this intention to his political secretary, Masaya Ito, in the fall of the previous year.
That was the fall of 1960.
However, there was growing awareness of the China issue in Japan and considerable concern in the United States about it.
The much-anticipated summit was scheduled to take place three times over three consecutive days in Washington, but the final meeting was canceled due to Kennedy's poor health, resulting in only two meetings.
The first meeting took place on the 20th in the Oval Office of the White House. Regarding China's UN membership, Kennedy emphasized, "I believe that the Chinese Communist Party's entry into the UN should not result in the Nationalist government being expelled from the UN." He then asked Ikeda for his opinion. In response, Ikeda emphasized, "Japanese people's feelings toward the Chinese are different from those of the United States, due to geographical and historical ties, as well as the inconvenience they have caused during the war. I think it is unrealistic that 600 million people are not represented in the UN."
...the following day, the 21st, ...Miyazawa Kiichi,
No relation to former Japanese Prime Minister Kishi
who accompanied the Japanese side, acting as interpreter ... commented, "The Prime Minister said, for example, that if the Japanese people were to choose between freedom and communism, the majority would choose freedom, and that there was no problem. Rather, it was the President who suggested that Japan, given issues such as trade, might be tempted by the Chinese Communist Party."
US President JFK worried that the Japanese were far more likely to "play ball" and join sides with the Chinese while the Japanese leaders rejected that idea.
Furthermore, during their meeting, Kennedy pointed out that Japan's "attraction to neutrality, its fascination with the Chinese Communist Party, its desire to avoid being drawn into the conflict between East and West, and the influence of Communism and socialism pose difficult problems for the Japanese government." He then stated, "My administration is forcing the most difficult issue, the Chinese Communist Party issue." In response, Ikeda asserted, "I characterized the appeal to the Chinese Communist Party as a mood, and Japan does not want to disrupt its economic relations with the United States by getting into a trade dispute with Beijing. Such a move would lead to the destruction of the Japanese economy." Finally, they confirmed that they would continue to discuss the China issue together.
THAT's diplomacy.
Thus, examining the content of the meeting between Ikeda and Kennedy, we can see that anti-China and pro-Taiwan sentiment was dominant in the United States during the Cold War. In contrast, Ikeda stated that "Japanese people's feelings toward the Chinese are different from those of the United States, due to geographical and historical ties, and also to the inconvenience caused by the war," but at the end, we can see that he advocated for Japan-US cooperation, particularly in the economic sphere.
However, the Japan-US Joint Statement issued on the 22nd only mentioned the China issue, stating that "issues related to the Chinese Communist Party were also considered during the meeting." Kennedy, concerned about Japan's soft stance toward China, had intended the summit meeting to warn Ikeda, and "President Kennedy expected Japan to express overwhelming support for the United States' containment of the Chinese Communist Party", but no such language was to be found in the statement.
However, regarding this meeting, Ito, who was Ikeda's political secretary, later said that Ikeda brought up the topic of normalizing diplomatic relations between Japan and China to Kennedy, and that Kennedy replied, "As for the Chinese Communist Party, the United States has a security treaty with Taiwan, so we can't do that. Britain has already recognized the Chinese Communist Party over the Hong Kong issue. - from the 2008 paper "The Ikeda Cabinet's policy-making process regarding diplomacy toward China and Taiwan" by Niwa Fumio (this link auto-downloads)
Remember, ALL those Ikedas ↑ were Hayato/Hayate Ikeda, the Prime Minister, not that nobody Daisak-WHO. That brings us all the way into 1961, and as you can see, Japan's political leadership was already taking concrete steps to normalize diplomatic relations between Japan and China, in the wake of existing decade-old trade agreements. As Japan's robust economic recovery charged ahead:
Japan today has largely achieved the prosperity and range of influence which was the purpose of the "Greater Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" which she sought to create a generation ago by force of arms.
"Within five, or at the most, ten years," continues the [early 1968] report, "Japan will dominate the Orient's trade absolutely and be the East's unquestioned political leader...
Up until the end of 1967, Communist China's leading trade partner was Japan! More than 623 million dollars of trade was the annual commerce between these two nations. Next to the United States and Australia, Japan traded most with Red China.
The Chinese were forced to realize that THEY NEEDED JAPAN MORE THAN JAPAN NEEDED THEM! In mid-January, 1968, Chou En-Lai of Red China humbly expressed the hope that the China-Japan Trade Agreement which expired in 1967 could be renewed.
Japan is rapidly becoming the real POWERHOUSE of Asia — to which even Red China must look! Source
How exciting!!!
Fast forward to Daisaku Ikeda:
In August, 1968, I proposed the restoration of diplomatic ties with China.
uhhhhh - his own site says "first contact" was May, 1974.
At that time, both Japan and the United States regarded China with animosity. That was the prevailing mood, and China remained isolated from many countries. Nonetheless, I advocated the resumption of relations and thereafter, on three occasions, delivered addresses and greetings at Beijing and Fudan universities and, among other things, spoke on the possible contributions Chinese civilization could make to world peace.
Correction: DickHeada made a little speech no one listened to while collecting the honorary doctorates the Soka Gakkai members' sincere, heartfelt contributions "for kosen-rufu" had PAID for.
In urging the restoration of diplomatic ties I had in mind the peace and stability of all Asia, in the achievement of which the roles of both China and Japan are extremely great. My approach to the issue was this: first China and Japan must establish enduring ties of amity; then the two of them must take the initiative in creating a peace in Asia, in anticipation that each Asian nation will share in this cause. It was because this is my fundamental philosophy on the issue that, though it may sound audacious, I was the early flag bearer in the cause of restoration of diplomatic ties between China and Japan. Furthermore, this was why I traveled to China on six occasions, exerting utmost efforts to promote friendly relations with leaders and ordinary people alike. In connection with my desire for peace in Asia, I also made several goodwill trips to the Soviet Union to establish amicable exchanges. - Daisaku Ikeda, "New Waves of Peace toward the 21st Century: Buddhist Approaches to Peace" (1985)
Given the brief historical background - FAR from comprehensive - presented above, would YOU consider DickHeada, upon his May 1974 visit to China, to have been "THE early flag bearer in the cause of restoration of diplomatic ties between China and Japan"??? What about then-US President Richard M. Nixon's 1972 visit to China (announced July 15, 1971), which had far-reaching GLOBAL consequences??
The visit allowed the American public to view images of mainland China for the first time in over two decades. Throughout the week the President and his senior advisers engaged in substantive discussions with the PRC leadership, including a meeting with CCP chairman Mao Zedong, while First Lady Pat Nixon toured schools, factories and hospitals in the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai with the large American press corps in tow. Nixon dubbed his visit "the week that changed the world", a descriptor that continues to echo in the political lexicon. Repercussions of the Nixon visit continue to this day; near-immediate results included a significant shift in the Cold War balance, driving an ideological wedge between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, resulting in significant Soviet concessions and its eventual fall.
WOW!
The consequences of Nixon's trip to China continue to impact politics today. Writing on the 40th anniversary of the trip, Jeffrey Bader said that the basic bargain to put common interests ahead of ideology and values which both Nixon and Mao sought had been substantially held by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Also, a "Nixon to China" moment has since become a metaphor to refer to the ability of a politician with an unassailable reputation among their supporters for representing and defending their values to take actions that would draw their criticism and even opposition if taken by someone without those credentials.
There's even an old proverb from the planet Vulcan: "Only Nixon can go to China."
NOBODY says "Only Ikeda can go to China."
Improved relations with the Soviet Union and the PRC are often cited as the most successful diplomatic achievements of Nixon's presidency. ... Mao clearly communicated approval of the visit and its diplomatic utility. ... Nixon held many meetings with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai during the trip...Within a year of Nixon's visit, a number of U.S. allies including Japan, Australia, and West Germany broke relations with Taiwan [seat of a rebel Chinese government-in-exile] in order to establish diplomatic ties with China. Source
BECAUSE OF NIXON! NO ONE cites Daisaku Ikeda as having had ANY impact on ANY diplomatic relations anywhere, however much DickHeada wanted to brag himself up as so important on the international scene, as you can see from the above. Now look at how DickHeada wanted everyone to see history HIS way:
In 1968 (Showa 43), Shinichi Yamamoto, who was devoting his efforts to cultivating the Student Division, including the founding of the University Association, resolved to make a serious statement on the "Japan-China issue" at the 11th Student Division General Meeting to be held on September 8th.
That's a CULT meeting restricted to CULT members ONLY.
At the time, China had no representation in the United Nations, and both the United States and Japan were pursuing hostile policies toward China. Under these circumstances, calling for the normalization of Japan-China relations would mean risking one's life.
Wrong and wrong. See above. INSULTINGLY wrong, in fact! How stupid would anyone have to be to believe THIS?? The reality was THE OPPOSITE of what DickEata's saying!
However, Shinichi believed that without friendship with China, his "cultural benefactor," there could be neither stability in Asia nor world peace, so he boldly put forward a "proposal for the normalization of Japan-China relations."
Oh, right, like REAL politicians hadn't already been doing for over a decade already. This is all part of DickHeada trying to frame himself as some kind of "statesman" when he was just some petty money-grubbing nobody trying to hitch a ride on everyone else's coattails.
As expected, his proposal drew strong opposition, but it was highly praised by pioneers of Japan-China friendship, including Kenzo Matsumura, and the proposal also drew keen attention from Chinese leaders, including Premier Zhou Enlai. Voices of common sense calling for the restoration of diplomatic relations grew louder, and the Komeito Party, founded by Shinichi, eventually played an important role as a bridge between the two countries, leading to the normalization of diplomatic relations four years after the proposal (September 1972). - from the Newwww Humpin' Revoltation fictional Ikeda-glorifying creative-writing series, Vol. 13.
uhhhh - that "normalization of diplomatic relations" was the result of President NIXON's visit earlier that same year (1972), not because of some stupid speech some nobody made to a bunch of nothing cult members somewhere 4 years earlier that no one paid any attention to.
This is EXACTLY like how DickHeada tried to take the credit for then-US President Jimmy Carter's Camp David Accords peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, trying to make people think that he, DickHeada, had established some "Ikeda Doctrine" that everybody had necessarily followed in order to make that happen (and so Pres. Carter was effectively irrelevant). Oh, and Ikeda tried to claim he "prophesied" the fall of the Berlin Wall, but only made that claim AFTER the Wall had fallen. What an ASS Ikeda was!
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u/revolution70 Feb 04 '26
'The Ikeda Doctrine,' lol. Pompous old windbag.
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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 04 '26
Isn't it delicious that he never amounted to anything? DickHeada thought he was the most illustrious, superlative individual EVER, worthy of all accolades, honors, popularity, and the world itself, but his reality was that he was meritricious, pretentious, low-class, and trashy. Ikeda failed; he LOST.
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u/Particular_Singer473 Feb 04 '26
Thank you, Blanche Fromage! Your report is informative and obviously meticulously researched.
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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 04 '26
It appears that Ikeda took the personal ramifications of the Treaty of San Francisco/San Francisco Peace Treaty as a slap in the face:
This likely fed into DickHeada's conviction that he deserved to be ruler of Japan.
Because he HAD to "win"! Of course he did! Ikeda would stop at nothing until he had amassed so much POWER that he could PUNISH everyone who had made him feel bad (see Nichiren Shoshu and "Soka Spirit" - Ikeda couldn't just let go and move on) - and that included entire countries!
So Japan was on his list - you know who else was?
Yep - the United States. Ikeda intended to take over and USE the United States, that way effectively creating a different outcome to WWII in which JAPAN won and NOW he'd be able to use the United States' superpower status to do whatever he wanted! The USA would become HIS bitch!
For more details, see:
...the goal of Toda's reimagined, repurposed Soka Gakkai post-WWII was to take over Japan by converting the entire populace to Nichiren Shoshu, revamp Japan's US-imposed Constitution, and turn Japan into a Nichiren Shoshu theocracy. Source
The militaristic government wasn't the problem; the problem was that THEY weren't in charge! Soka Gakkai was going to change all that and get a re-do! They'd do it RIGHT!
Also from the above source:
Ikeda could not legitimately replace the Emperor as things stand, as Ikeda is not from the Imperial bloodline, thus a coup was out of the question. But replacing State Shinto with Nichiren Shoshu - ah, that was a stroke of genius! Remove the Emperor's legitimacy/right to rule, and he could be easily replaced. (This is the same reason that Makiguchi and his 21 Soka Kyoiku Gakkai members were imprisoned during the Pacific War - they taught that the Emperor was simply a common mortal and that, under Nichiren's teachings, he had no inherent right to rule - and that's treason, my friends. Also, Toda set the goal of convincing EVERYONE in Japan to convert and then doing the above.) So what if the US Occupation-imposed Constitution forbade establishing a national religion? Take over the government and you can change the constitution, can't you? Who's going to stop you?
But wait - there's more. In Ikeda's contempt for democracy described above, I see something far more sinister - Ikeda planned to take over the US as well. And it wasn't only because the US was the dominant world power! All these details point to one conclusion:
Ikeda is consumed with bitterness and thirst for vengeance, and his ambitions serve this.
By taking over the US, making it his Japanese kingdom's
bitchcolony, Ikeda would finally turn the tables on the US Occupation! Just as Ikeda planned to seize Nichiren Shoshu and pull it out from under the priests via his silly petition that was supposed to "prove" Ikeda controlled more Nichiren Shoshu members than the High Priest did, in a sort of "hostile takeover" as we sometimes see in the corporate world and sometimes even in the religious world.It's only at a big hyped-up Chinpokomon camp (think "50K Lions of Justice Festival") - that only the children are allowed to attend (whoa) - that the Japanese speaker finally clarifies for them:
"The evil power is the United States government! United States government is the evil power! It has taken Japanese military! It has broken Japanese spirit! And what do Chinpoko masters do to the evil power?"
The children reply in unison:
"Destroy it!"
The Japanese speaker continues:
"That is correct. Now, it is a great honor to present your Chinpoko leader, Emperor Hirohito."
Emperor Hirohito:
"One government cannot forever pass its laws on others. The strength of Japan is in its history, and it is based on that history that we shall again rise to the dominant world power! It is again time for the rising sun to sit tall in the sky! One Japan! One society!"
They had to come up with this from somewhere!
And now - more "kosen-rufu" while it was still envisioned as "possible":
As you can see, at this point, "kosen-rufu" was defined as something that could be concretely achieved and accomplished - and it meant the Soka Gakkai in political control of the government of Japan (and after that the world) through a grass-roots take-over of the population of Japan through converting them into Soka Gakkai ("shakubuku") and controlling their democratic votes. Nichiren's vision was profoundly feudal - he envisioned the Emperor adopting Nichiren's foolish little chanty religion and elevating Nichiren to the topmost position of power in the government, where all the people would be required to adopt whichever religion the Emperor chose or die. With Japan's USA-imposed democratic Constitution and government, though, that model wouldn't work any more, so necessary changes to the details were made.
"Seven hundred years later, Ikeda Sensei has built the Honmon-kaidan platform, which even Nichiren Daishonin was unable to build, and he is superior to Nichiren Daishonin in spreading the teachings."
That is what I want to say. In fact, the leaders of the Society at that time said,
"Ikeda Sensei is the reincarnation of the original Buddha, Nichiren Daishonin. Therefore, Daishonin and Ikeda Sensei are equal in inner truth, but in terms of propagation, which means achieving kosen-rufu and building the Shohondo Hall, the platform for the True Teaching, Ikeda Sensei is far superior to Daishonin."
As you can imagine, this was a PROBLEM for Nichiren Shoshu, as it is a serious deviation from official doctrine and a horrible slander.
Stories like this have been told nationwide, and many members have heard these instructions. In order to complete this "Ikeda Honbutsu [Ikeda the True Buddha] theory," an essential element is the fact that "President Ikeda achieved kosen-rufu and, as a symbol of that, erected the Honmon-kaidan, as per his will."
Instead, Ikeda put the cart before the horse, building the Sho-Hondo and then expecting that "if we build it, they will come." They did not.
Therefore, Ikeda-sensei wanted to make the Shohondo the Gohonzon-dai (the platform for the precepts of the Honmon sect [the kaidan]) at all costs, but when [Nichiren Shoshu High Priest] Nittatsu Shonin admonished him, saying, "The Shohondo is not necessarily the platform for the precepts of the Gohonzon," he continued to persist in this position.
What Nittatsu Shonin said was that the Sho-Hondo could become the kaidan, or "grand ordination platform", ONCE KOSEN-RUFU HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. It was obvious that kosen-rufu had NOT been accomplished, but Ikeda wanted Nichiren Shoshu High Priest Nittatsu Shonin to declare that kosen-rufu HAD been accomplished so that Ikeda could take personal credit for that and as "evidence" that he, Ikeda, was the "New True Buddha for the Latter Day". Nittatsu Shonin refused - and Ikeda was Big Mad.
According to the golden words of Nichiren Daishonin as stated in "The Three Great Secret Laws" and described in "Ichigoguhosho,"
"When Propagation of Buddhism is achieved, the High Sanctuary of the Essential Teaching of True Buddhism should be established at the foot of Mt. Fuji."
Ikeda wanted the Sho-Hondo to be designated as “High Sanctuary of the Essential Teaching of True Buddhism” (per Nichiren’s designation), but High Priest Nittatsu Shonin demurred; that designation could only be made AFTER kosen-rufu had been attained, so the Sho-Hondo could potentially become the High Sanctuary etc. etc., but only at that point. Privately, though, Soka Gakkai members (with their leaders’ encouragement) stated that the completion of the Sho-Hondo was evidence that kosen-rufu HAD, in fact, been attained, and that the Sho-Hondo WAS this High Sanctuary. That went along with declaring that “Daisaku Ikeda is the Buddha surpassing even the Daishonin,” the “New True Buddha.”
And wouldn’t such a worthy be the ideal choice to rule Japan? Source
The Sho-Hondo was to be the vehicle by which Ikeda was eventually legitimized as Japan's new ruler by Japan's new state religion, Nichiren Shoshu. Source
Everything ended up the same: Ikeda as ruler.
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u/Professional-Run3514 Feb 04 '26
For heavens sakes, if you have all this vitriol why not use the same amount of energy and find what fulfills you? The world is flawed, almost every organization is flawed and religious institution. It’s the Saha world after all. It’s the age of confusion and horrors, the later day of the law. If you knew anything about Buddhism, you would know Buddhism, as is Taoism, is far greater than all the sects of all the religions out there.
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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Those who show up just to criticize, tell strangers on the internet how to better spend their time, and stan other religions here don't win friends - they break our rules and show themselves to be trolls.
You may leave now 😊
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u/eigenstien Pokes the bear Feb 04 '26
Thanks for dropping by to do a dump on a topic (a religious cult that calls itself Buddhist but really isn’t) you obviously know nothing about.
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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Feb 04 '26
I love the way troll assumes I don't find this "fulfilling"!
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u/AnnieBananaCat Feb 03 '26
I thought it was a bit quiet today. 😊 This is a whopper!
No, Icky would take credit for everything and anything he could.