Seikyo Shimbun Highlights:
The Rizal Society of Philippines conferred upon SGI President Ikeda its very first “Rizal Society International Award for Justice, Peace and Humanisim”. The ceremony took place on Oct 20 at the Philippines International Conference Hall. Chairman of Rizal Society in his speech said that this award is to honour Dr Ikeda as being a leader who has dedicated his whole life with clear goals, vision and value-creation to uphold justice, peace and humanism, just like Prof Jose Rizal.
In 1998 Nov, Dr Ikeda has met with the then chairman of Rizal Society Rogelio M. Quiambao and their dialogue is published in the book (with in Japanese) titled Sekai no Bungaku o Kataru (tentative translation: “Dialogue on World Literature”).
