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The AnticultThere is also another large list of articles about SGI on Prévensectes.
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(English) Soka Gakkai - The House of Clarification
Statement of Intent - Serve Counter Information on the Soka Gakkai
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This is also from the prevensectes site, the testimony of Nobuhiro Nobuko, an SGI-Japan women's division leader, who alleges that she was raped three times by Ikeda when he visited Hokkaido's SGI Center -- 1973, 1983, and 1991.
SGI, and Ikeda, of course, deny this. How credible is she? She did wait many years to come forward and tell this account, so there is no physical evidence. When she came forward, she wanted money from SGI and Ikeda. So, was she really raped, or did she just want money, publicity, or revenge? I don't think that we can know, given what little evidence exists.
So why did I copy part of her story? I copied the story because there was another part that seemed significant -- how her activities in SGI affected her children. She speaks of pregnant women going out in the cold Hokkaido winters to do street shakabuku, and of mothers carrying small babies out in bad weather to do shakabuku. She also speaks of spending so much time at SGI activities that she and her husband did not eat dinner with their children. Her child's teacher reprimanded her about her neglect of her children.
This is not limited to Japan, or the 1950's or 60's. Jean Anker, on her www.fraughtwithperil.com blog, Byrd's Chicks, writes about being pressured by her SGI leader to take her colicky newborn out into very hot summer weather, to do street shakabuku. To her credit, she refused. I also remember the frenetic rounds of SGI activities in the 1980's, meetings practically every night. Some members who were doing all these activities just left their kids home, while others brought their children. So either some reluctant youth division member got stuck watching the kids -- or nobody really paid attention to the kids, and they were bored, frustrated and acted out. I often wondered how these kids would feel about their parents and SGI when they were older.
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I am completely separated from the Soka Gakkai May 5, 1992. My husband and I had entered the Soka Gakkai February 26, 1956, was the epoch of the second President Toda, and from that day until now, my long involvement in the Soka Gakkai totaling thirty six years.
The sacrifice of my family
Before talking about my experience on how I was treated by Ikeda, I talk a little about the path I have followed the ratings Gakkai. Since our commitment Gakkai, my husband and I are making great strides in our business for Gakkai, the sacrifice of our family in order to propagate Buddhism seriously in the world. At first, we entered because after giving birth to my first son, my health was not very good. My husband was worried, and accordingly went to a reunion discussion of the Soka Gakkai. At that time, Hakodate was the main stronghold of the Gakkai in Hokkaido, because of the passionate towards his first manager Chapter Yasoutaka Noujou. My husband returned from the reunion of discussion and decided to commit, saying, "if it is not good, I'll go away after a year." Each night after that my child fell asleep, me too, I revered the Gohonzon late at night around 1 o'clock in the morning to see what could happen. This happened in the space of just five days. Just continuing to worship the Gohonzon, I cured of my disease, which afflicts me constantly. Since I had faith in the Gohonzon above all.
Rather than giving a happy family life to my children, I think I've made anxious. The years following my appointment, my second son was born, and I remember like it was yesterday, bringing with me while shakubuku.
I was shakubuku every day thinking, 'or can I change his diaper? " A verse of a song Gakkai says, "our bulging bellies in the blizzard ...", but I think I was the true image of that song while I was walking in the intense cold of Hokkaido carrying my baby.
After that my son starts school, he wrote a composition in which he mentions our lifestyle. "I alone watching the house every day." His teacher read the composition and called me at school. He asked, "What you may well make you the mother of this child?" I do not recall that our family has ever had a dinner together.-------------------------------End of Quote----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"...our bulging bellies in the blizzard...." That just seems so sad, these pregnant women, or young mothers carrying wet babies, out into the cold Hokkaido winters. Or the young children, alone in the house. And yes, these mothers made a choice to do that. Sure, you can say that they should have said no. You can also say that the leaders should not have asked this of them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/2010 12:45AM by tsukimoto.