If you Google, you'll find that Benjamin Fulford has his own website, and is quoted on other people's websites. Lots of conspiracy theories like the Illuminati scientists have been triggering earthquakes in Japan recently.
Come on! Japan has had frequent, and powerful earthquakes for all of recorded history. It's because of plate techtonics and fault zones -- not conspiracies, but who wants to read about shifting plates under the earth's crust. Conspiracies sell more newspapers.
So I don't know that he, or his fans are really the most reliable sources of information. Fulford has not presented any quotes from anyone, or any evidence that Ikeda is in a coma.
The following is from a blog that quotes Fulford:
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In Japan, meanwhile, the top agent for George Bush Senior and his genocidal cabal is now Deputy Finance Minister Eijiro Katsu. He is now the top cabal power broker in Japan and Prime Minister Noda is his slave, according to Japanese military intelligence. Katsu is allied with Japanese power broker Ichiro Ozawa and his fellow traitors in an attempt to loot the vast funds controlled by the Sokka Gakkai Budhist lay-group. Sokka head Daisaku Ikeda is in a coma and as a result there is a huge battle for control of his empire. Ikeda was a charismatic and powerful figure and all potential rivals for leadership have long since left his organization. The result is that now that he has become incapacitated, there is a battle for a headless but rich and powerful entity. The Nichiren Buddhist Temples will be contacting Sokka Gakkai leadership in an attempt to persuade them to return to the Nichiren fold following a schism in 1995. The Nichiren Buddhists support the White Dragon Society.
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And no, I don't see SGI and Nichiren Shoshu getting back together anytime soon, whether Ikeda is alive, dead, or comatose.
The rumors about Ikeda being dead or in a coma have been around for years. There's also this, from SokaGakkaiUnofficial, August 2009:
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Rumor has it that Ikeda is in a coma. Anyone know anything about this?
August 17, 2009, SokaGakkaiUnofficial message board
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So, is he or isn't he? I think that his health is declining, and he's making few, or no public appearances because of it. A coma or death? How would the senior SGI leadership or the Ikeda family cover that up? A person in a coma requires a lot of care; death requires a death certificate and disposal of the body. Surely, if Ikeda were dead, or comatose, several people would know, and someone would have talked.