Tohoku Members Present Reconstruction Efforts

Japan 2021
The Soka Gakkai exhibition booth at the symposium [© Seikyo Shimbun]

On March 6 and 7, Soka Gakkai members in the Tohoku region of Japan participated in the 2021 Sendai Symposium for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Future, which was held at the Sendai International Center Exhibition Building. Members described their reconstruction efforts since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, which devastated the region. Youth representatives made an online presentation introducing the results of an awareness survey about the earthquake conducted by the Soka Gakkai Student Division in 2020. They also shared various Soka Gakkai initiatives such as hosting concerts and donating books to schools in the affected areas.