What about Soka Gakkai untoward and premature deaths?

 "Excerpt from "The Palace of Peace and Culture: The Journeys of Daisaku Ikeda" (2006)

Another piece of Ikeda hagiography from Soka's own publisher, as if there's not enough of those out there...This particular passage about the aftermath of the 1957 "Osaka Incident" says so much about the true nature of SGI members concealed behind their love-bombing:

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The district attorney who led the investigations into Soka Gakkai members was Atsushi Tabei.  Eventually he was promoted to a position at the Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau.  Shortly thereafter he began experiencing pain in his chest & back, along with incessant coughing.  His promising career was cut short by lung cancer.  He was only 50 years old.

The prosecutor who coerced a confession from President Ikeda was Ikutaro Nomura.  He moved on to work at the Tokyo Supreme Prosecutors Office, but at the prime of his career, he began experiencing extreme fatigue.  It was liver failure.  He soon fell into a coma and died shortly thereafter.  He was 57.

The officer who interrogated President Ikeda was Toshio Inokawa.  He eventually became chief prosecutor of Osaka, but his luck ran out by the time he began private law practice.  He died at 64, dashing his dreams of a comfortable retirement.  District attorneys Hiroshi Kakimoto and Yoshihiko Watanabe have also perished.  One cannot help but think of the Buddhist concept of karmic retribution.

What about the untoward and premature deaths of Soka Gakkai members?

President Ikeda's first born son died of a bleeding ulcer, a highly unusual occurrence for a young man in the modern age. David Kasahara's first born son died of massive brain trauma. Guy McCloskey's first born son died in a motorcycle accident. Michael and Diane (Japanese NY pioneer member) Cody's first born son died when he accidentally strangled on a tree branch. One top New York senior leader died when a snow plow ran over his car on a clear and snow free day. I know of another who had the top of head taken off by a metal stage prop hook as he sat in the audience. I knew another YWD leader who lost his legs when he got out of his car on a relatively traffic free road and a car barreled into him when he was getting his spare tire from the trunk. My friend, Dewitt Johnson, an up and coming YMD senior leader, died when his parachute failed to open. Shin Yatomi, Vice Study Department chief (unofficial chief) was absolutely sure he would beat his cancer but died nevertheless. Gary Hinman, a Men's Division leader and head of the bagpipers was brutally murdered by the Manson crew. If you Google "obituaries, Soka gakkai", you will see how many young and relatively young SGI members are dying of rare diseases and accidents and you can compare it with another US religion of similar size if you are so inclined to perform a statistical analysis. Source - Mark Rogow

Actually, I think it was Ikeda's favorite son, not his eldest son, who died at only 29 years old.

I did a little looking around - I found that FraughtWithPeril founder and SGI member Greg Dilley died in a scuba diving accident at only 48 years old. An old friend from where I first joined SGI, who remained in the SGI until he died, is now dead - of cancer at age 59. In fact, you'll find no shortage of deaths from cancer among SGI member obituaries...

Shin Yatomi, who was the SGI-USA's Study Department Chief (appointed 2004) and Managing Editor of Living Buddhism magazine, was diagnosed with lung cancer (both lungs) in Oct., 2006; by May 31, 2007, he was dead. He wrote "The Untold History of the Fuji School", a sectarian and unreliable telling of Nichiren Shoshu history that supports and defends Ikeda's usurping of Nichiren Shoshu's claim to the correct doctrinal lineage stemming from Nichiren Daishonin.

Another SGI-USA luminary not mentioned in the obit list above was Pascual Olivera, the Head of the [all-important] SGI-USA's Culture Department (which was founded, by Ikeda, of course - no one else is allowed any credit for anything - in 1990). Olivera died of cancer in 2003, and his devoted SGI-member wife followed him in death, likewise from cancer, in 2006. And let's not forget David Aoyama - a Japanese Soka Gakkai import fast-tracked for national top leadership just like Danny Nagashima was - who died in one of the flights that hit the WTC on 9/11.

I knew a woman here who had similarly lost a leg - she had gone around the back of the car to get something out of the trunk, and a car slammed into her. She considered it a "benefit" that the docs were able to save ONE of her legs! Also, in a district in a nearby suburb that I visited a few times, I heard there was an SGI member-couple whose baby was stillborn. And I've mentioned that SGI-USA Vice National WD leader, the one who told me to get rid of my Nichiren Shu gohonzon wall decorations and told me "You need to chant until you agree with me", who dropped dead 2 weeks later. And that former WD District leader's soul-mate girlfriend, who was also a devoted SGI-USA member, who dropped dead of a blood clot in her brain stem. She was only in her late-30s or about 40. That same former WD District leader's younger son's spine was crushed in a freak accident; he's paralyzed for life despite thousands of hours of daimoku from SGI-USA members. Where I practiced last, my WD District leader's alcoholic husband had to be hospitalized; he died when he fell out of his hospital bed - of course she was chanting for his complete recovery. And this couple in that same district - they'd met when he was in prison for sexually molesting his own young son and she was a prison nurse - he chased her with his car and ended up shooting her dead in a convenience store parking lot. It just goes on and on AND ON - what other organization has such a high toll of human misery to its credit??

SGI President Ikeda said in his guidance, “The Mystic Law is the fundamental law or principle of the universe. The prayers of those who chant, practice and champion this incomparably profound Mystic Law are directly in tune with the fundamental rhythm of the universe.

As such, their prayers will definitely be answered. And they themselves will be safeguarded and protected without fail by the heavenly deities and all Buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout the universe. What a steaming pile of bullshit

If it can't work for THESE people, the leaders who are held up to us as the shining examples of proper practice, what hope does anyone else have that it can be made to work??

...Daisaku Ikeda, the world’s foremost authority on Nichiren Buddhism and a spiritual leader for millions worldwide. Source" - Branch Fromage SGI Whistleblowers

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