Editing Soka Gakkai (section)

==Organization==
[[File:創価学会広宣流布大誓堂.jpg|thumb|Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen-rufu (Kosen-rufu Daiseido)]]
[[File:Soka Gakkai (new head office 1).jpg|thumb|Soka Gakkai's Tokyo headquarters]]
Formally, the [[Soka Gakkai International]] is the umbrella organization for all national organizations, while Soka Gakkai by itself refers to the Japanese arm.

The basic functional organizational unit is the Block – a group of members in a neighborhood who meet regularly for discussion, study and encouragement.  A number of Blocks form a District, and Districts are grouped into Chapters.  From there the Soka Gakkai is organized into Areas, Regions, Prefectures and, finally, Territories – all under the umbrella of the national organization.  Discussion and study meetings, the basic organizational activities, are conducted mainly at the Block level, though there are occasional meetings held at every level.<ref>{{cite web|title=Organization Chart|url=http://www.sokanet.jp/info/soshiki.html|website=Sokanet|access-date=26 October 2015}}</ref>

===Membership===
Soka Gakkai International claims a total of over 12 million adherents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sokaglobal.org/about-the-soka-gakkai/at-a-glance/a-global-organization.html |title=A Global Organization |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Soka Global (SGI) |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref> The majority of these belong to the Japanese organization, whose official membership count is 8.27 million households.<ref>{{cite web |title=概要 |url=http://www.sokanet.jp/info/gaiyo.html |work=SOKAnet 創価学会公式サイト |publisher=Soka Gakkai |access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> However, this is the figure put forward by the organization itself, and is not supported by any independent count. According to the work of American academic Levi McLaughlin, membership in Japan is closer to 2-3% of the country's population, or between 2.4 and 4 million people.

In a 1996 NHK survey, it was found that Soka Gakkai adherent made up somewhere around 3.2% of the Japanese population, or somewhere around 4 million individuals.<ref name="1996statistics">[http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/honkawa/7770.html Religion in Japan by prefecture, 1996]. [[:File:Religion in Japan by prefecture, 1996 statistics.png|English language bar table.]]</ref> According to statistics from the [[Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan)|Agency for Cultural Affairs]] (a body of the [[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology|Japanese Ministry of Education]]), the Japanese organization had 5.42 million individual members in 2000.<ref name="bunka2">{{cite web |url=http://www.relnet.co.jp/relnet/brief/r3-01.htm |title=わが国における主な宗教団体名 |publisher=文化庁 |date=1995-12-31 |access-date=2013-11-01}}</ref>

In a 2002–2003 survey of 602 Soka Gakkai adherents living in [[Sapporo]], [[Hokkaido]] who had at least one child over the age of 18, it was found that 65.9% of those members' adult children were also themselves active members. Additionally, it was found that among the siblings of 418 second-generation members, collectively speaking, 69.5% of all those siblings were also active members. A further analysis found that "higher degrees of parental religiosity, better family relationships, and higher levels of participation in youth groups" contributed to higher degrees of religiosity among Soka Gakkai children during middle school years, although this effect was more pronounced in women than in men.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Inose |first=Yūri |date=2005 |title=Influential Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: The Case of Sōka Gakkai in Hokkaido |journal=Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=371–382 |jstor=30234069 |issn=0304-1042}}</ref>

A study in Europe found that most of new members joined because of the personalities of the people they met within the organization; but the biggest reason for continuing is the positive changes they see in their own lives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dobbelaere |first1=Karel |title=Soka Gakkai |date=1998 |publisher=Signature Books |isbn=978-1-56085-153-0 |page=38}}</ref>

===List of Soka Gakkai presidents===
The following are the list of the presidents of the Soka Gakkai:

# [[Tsunesaburō Makiguchi]] – (18 November 1930 – 18 November 1944)
# [[Jōsei Toda]] – (3 May 1951 – 2 April 1958)
# [[Daisaku Ikeda]] – (3 May 1960 – 24 April 1979)<small> +  (''Honorary President'' of the [[Soka Gakkai International]]: 1979 – 2023)</small>
# [[:ja:北条浩|Hiroshi Hōjō]] – (24 April 1979 – 18 July 1981)
# [[Einosuke Akiya]] – (18 July 1981 – 9 November 2006)<ref name=sgi_press_release>{{cite web|title=Minoru Harada appointed as Soka Gakkai President|url=http://www.sgi.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2006/press061110.html|publisher=Soka Gakkai International|access-date=3 January 2014}}</ref>
# [[Minoru Harada]] – (9 November 2006 – incumbent)<ref name=sgi_press_release/>