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{{Short description|Japanese Buddhist leader}}
{{Multiple issues|
{{third-party|date=August 2014}}
{{notability|Bio|date=January 2020}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Minoru Harada
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|11|08}}
| birth_place = [[Bunkyo, Tokyo|Bunkyo-Ku]], [[Tokyo]], Japan
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office = 6th President of [[Soka Gakkai]]
| term_start = 9 November 2006
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Einosuke Akiya]]
| successor =
| alma_mater = {{plainlist|
*[[University of Tokyo]]}}
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Minoru Harada'''|原田稔|Harada Minoru|born 8 November 1941}} is a Japanese [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] leader. He is the sixth president of the [[Soka Gakkai]] from 9 November 2006.<ref name="Soka Gakkai (global) 2020">{{cite web | title=A Global Organization | website=Soka Gakkai (global) | date=24 Aug 2020 | url=https://www.sokaglobal.org/about-the-soka-gakkai/at-a-glance/a-global-organization.html | access-date=28 Feb 2022}}</ref><ref name="MinoruHaradaAppointedasSokaGakkaiPresident">[http://www.sgi.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2006/press061110.html Minoru Harada Appointed as Soka Gakkai President | Soka Gakkai International (SGI) - press releases Tokyo, Nov 10, 2006] Retrieved April 7, 2016</ref> He is also the Supreme Advisor of [[Sōka University]] and the Acting President of [[Soka Gakkai International]] (SGI).

In 1953, he became an adherent of Soka Gakkai (at the time was one of the several lay organizations of [[Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism]]). He attended Tokyo Metropolitan Bunkyo High School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Bunkyo Secondary Education School). He graduated from the [[University of Tokyo]] with a [[Bachelor of Economics]] degree.

According to Soka Gakkai, he was a [[left-wing politics|left-wing]] protester and a [[student activism|student activist]], participating in the [[demonstration (protest)|demonstration]] into the [[National Diet Building]] in the 1960s.<ref>大白蓮華2008年10月号P34-35「師弟に生き抜け！立正安国と第二室戸台風」</ref> He was the manager of the Student Division and the Youth Division of Soka Gakkai, and one of the Vice-Presidents of Soka Gakkai. In a 1976 interview, Harada provided views of Soka Gakkai which contrasted with traditional Nichiren ones; although the latter has typically seen [[natural disaster]]s as arising when society refuses to adopt the "True Law", Soka Gakkai viewed such effects as being subtler, as in societal problems rather than the likes of [[earthquake]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Metraux |first=Daniel A. |date=1986 |title=The Sōka Gakkai's Search for the Realization of the World of Risshō Ankokuron |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30233360 |journal=Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=31–61 |doi=10.18874/jjrs.13.1.1986.31-61 |jstor=30233360 |issn=0304-1042|doi-access=free }}</ref>

He became the sixth President of Soka Gakkai<ref>{{cite book |title=Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the globalization of Buddhist humanism |last=Seager |first=Richard Hughes |page=94 |year=2006 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=978-0-520-24577-8 }}</ref> on 9 November 2006 following the resignation of [[Einosuke Akiya]].<ref name="MinoruHaradaAppointedasSokaGakkaiPresident"/>

On 8 November 2014, Harada officially declared in the ''[[Seikyo Shimbun]]'' newspaper that the original tenets of the Soka Gakkai Constitution from 1930 have been revised and the [[Dai Gohonzon]] image that was once venerated within the organization is no longer its object of worship, further disassociating Soka Gakkai from the [[Nichiren Shoshu]] Buddhist sect.

==Soka Gakkai Presidency==

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{{Succession box| before=[[Einosuke Akiya]] | title= 6th President of [[Soka Gakkai]] | after=Incumbent | years=9 November 2006 - present}}
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Minoru Harada - Revision history

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