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Soka University of America
Soka University of America (SUA) is a four-year liberal arts university located in Aliso Viejo, California, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/orgs/profile/953909672 )〕 The university's mission is to "foster a steady stream of global citizens committed to living a contributive life,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mission & Values )〕 with an emphasis on principles of pacifism, human rights, and the creative coexistence of nature and humanity. It has a graduate and an undergraduate program.
A much larger and older sister school, Soka University of Japan, is located in Hachiōji, Tokyo. SUA encompasses both a four-year liberal arts college and a graduate school offering a Master's program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change.〔http://www.soka.edu/academics/academics-overview-ma-program/default.aspx〕 SUA hosts the Pacific Basin Research Center and the academic journal ''Annals of Scholarship''. The school is noted for being in the top three in terms of first-year student happiness in the United States as measured by retention rates.〔http://www.collegechoice.net/posts/colleges-with-happiest-freshman/〕
==History and philosophy==
SUA is a secular and nonsectarian university founded by Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International. SUA's philosophical foundation originated in the work of Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, who created a society for educators dedicated to social and educational reform in Japan during the years leading up to World War II.〔 Makiguchi was an elementary school principal, strongly influenced by John Dewey and American educational progressivism.
Between 1930-1934, Makiguchi published his 4-volume work, ''Sōka Kyōikugaku Taikei'' (Value Creating Education System), to argue for his belief that education should proceed through dialog instead of "force-feeding" information to students. This student-centered and humanistic philosophy, he argued, made "the purpose of education" an effort "to lead students to happiness." Education, he asserted, should be directed toward "creating value" for the individual and society. Makiguchi was a pacifist and an ardent believer in religious liberty and freedom of conscience. Jailed by Japanese authorities during World War II for ideas and actions inimical to the war effort, he died in prison in 1944. After the war, as the Soka Gakkai organization grew, Makiguchi's educational philosophy became the centerpiece of a number of Soka schools in Japan advocated by his successors, Jōsei Toda (a former elementary school teacher) and Daisaku Ikeda, who is the founder of SUA. Ikeda describes the founding of SUA as the fruition of the dreams of Makiguchi and Toda.〔Sharma, 1999〕〔Bethel, 1990〕
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