What are Ikeda's aims?
Five years after gaining command of Soka Gakkai, he told a Japanese writer:
"I am the king of Japan;
I am its president;
I am the master of its spiritual life;
I am the supreme power who entirely directs its intellectual culture."
In the years since, "world peace" has been the sect's mantra.
New Komeito promotes pacifism in Japan.
Representatives of the sect have worked the UN and other official venues touting international harmony and goodwill--and usually Ikeda.
Followers mount a traveling show equating him with Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2004/0906/126.html