THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 19, 2023 at 17:50 JST
Daisaku Ikeda, left, honorary president of Soka Gakkai, greets Chinese President Hu Jintao in Tokyo in 2008. (Pool)
Komeito, a once peace-oriented political party backed by the hugely influential lay Buddhist group Soka Gakkai, all but lost its bearings after becoming the junior member of the ruling coalition headed by the Liberal Democratic Party, say critics. [Read More]
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