The New Human Revolution Voll. 25/26

Beginning in early 1977 Shin'ichi Yamamoto made a series of trips to various prefectures in Japan: in each place meeting with local leaders became an opportunity to offer guidance and advice on various aspects of the activity such as unity and the attitude of leaders, but also practical guidance on such topics as, for example, how to organize meetings, how to be a moderator during meetings, or how to transmit communications. In September of the same year, the Cemetery Park dedicated to him, the first example of a cemetery created by the Soka Gakkai, was inaugurated in the village of Atsuta, Josei Toda's hometown. President Yamamoto attends the inauguration and expounds on Nichiren Daishonin's profound vision of life and death in Buddhism. The year 1978, the "Year of Study," is marked by a change in the organizational structure of the Soka Gakkai: from the "vertical" system, in which each member belonged to the area to which the person who introduced him or her to Buddhism belonged, to the new chapter-centered, geographic-area-based structure, with the intention of allowing people to take root in the local reality and engage in Buddhist dialogue with people in their own community. Also, that year Shin'ichi pledged to pave the way for the study of Buddhism as a driving force for kosen rufu, giving a strong impetus to the Gakkai's study activities.

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