Posted by rani on Nov. 19, 2013, 4:49 p.m.
November 18 is the anniversary of the establishment of the Soka Gakkai – "Value- Creation Society".
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (front row, center)
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, first president of the Soka Gakkai, and his disciple Josei Toda (second president) published the first in a series of writings outlining the system of soka, or value-creating pedagogy, on November 18, 1930, and this date marks the founding of the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai--the Society for Value-Creating Education. The word "soka," which was coined by Toda and Makiguchi, is a combination of Chinese characters meaning "create" and "value."