President Harada’s Statement Renouncing War Now Available in Chinese and Spanish

Global 2025
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Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada’s statement, titled “Creating a Wave of Change Toward a Century Without War,” is now also available in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and Spanish. In the statement, originally issued in Japanese on August 1, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, President Harada writes: “We must deepen our commitment to peace by making an explicit vow to renounce war, grounded in the conviction that no one on this planet should ever have to endure its horrors.” The statement will soon be available in French.