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At present, Nichiren Shoshu seems wholly enveloped by faith in the absolute authority of the high priest. Nichiren Shoshu even went so far as to say that “Even the object of devotion of the essential teaching produces no benefit without faith in the high priest (chief administrator) who alone inherits the heritage of the Law” (Refuting Yumo Matsuoka’s Slanderous “Refutation of Faith in the Absolute Authority of High Priest,” published by Nichiren Shoshu Administrative Office, September 2005, p. 18). The infallibility of the chief administrator is the ultimate Nichiren Shoshu myth.    
 

Masatomo Yamazaki Apologizes

Nov. 2004 - No. 2

TOKYO, Japan: Masatomo Yamazaki formally apologized to a former city council member in Tokyo District Court after being sued for defamation and infringement of privacy.

The former city councilor sued Yamazaki after he wrote in a 2001 tome that the man was connected to the Japanese mafia.

The former city councilor was high school classmates with a man involved with the mafia. He appeared as a character witness for the former classmate, in hopes that the man could be rehabilitated.

Yamazaki promised that he would never write a similar defamatory article. “I apologize to the plaintiff for having caused him trouble,” he said in court.
His statement will be kept as official document in the case.

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