Daisaku Ikeda: Influential leader of Japan's Soka Gakkai Buddhist group dies

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1970-01-01 08:00

Daisaku Ikeda, a well-connected ex-head of the Soka Gakkai group, greatly expanded its global reach.

Daisaku Ikeda, a former leader of Japan's influential Buddhist group Soka Gakkai, has died at the age of 95.

Over decades Ikeda expanded the organisation's international following and forged links with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

He died from natural causes at his home near...