Talk:New Clean Government Party
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I believe the affiliation between the Komeito party and Soka Gakkai has been stopped? Soka Gakkai still supports the movement, but there is no official connection (my understanding).
We'll look into it. The only obstacle is the burden of proof. JCB
No, I don't think so. Komeitou still sees itself as the political arm of Soka Gakkai. You have to be a member of the religion to join the party.
On the New Komeito homepage (http://www.komei.or.jp/en/about/view.html) I think they make it fairly clear that the party and Soka Gakkai are seperate organizations. Also why is the name of this article the New Clean Government Party and not New Komeito? In all articles I've seen in English in Japan, New Komeito is used and the name the party uses on the above homepage is also New Komeito. The statement that New Komeito's aim is to institute a Buddhist democracy is also heavily POV and should be changed or justified. The comment about sending troops to Iraq while valid also sounds like POV. --Sekizaru 14:09, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Komeito and Soka Gakkai affiliation
This 'affiliation' is simply that Soka Gakkai members like to vote people who have same kind of ideas, other Soka Gakkai members certainly have. But, Soka Gakkai have also endorsed some candidates form othet parties, LPD for example. And in this light I don't think membership in Soka Gakkai is requirement for Komeito candidacy.
Separation of Soka Gakkai and Komeito means that if you are candidate of Komeito, you can't hold responsibility position in Soka Gakkai. This has been so since -72 I think.
I would also still like to see where exactly Daisaku Ikeda has claimed that Komeito aims to establish ND as state religion, when Komeito is PRO freedom of religion. He has many times denied this, as well as Josei Toda.