Association of Retired Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Hilario G. Davide, Jr.
(Ret.) Chief Justice of the Philippines

Association of Retired Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Hilario G. Davide, Jr.
(Ret.) Chief Justice of the Philippines

In just fifty years from its founding on April 2, 1971, our SOKA University has more than fully proven itself as the "highest seat of learning for humanistic education; cradle of a new culture; and a fortress of peace for mankind." It has gone beyond the borders of a great nation through various units in other parts of the world and its comprehensive system of international exchange. Thus, it is producing both national and global citizens whose lives are nourished by and lived with the principles and wisdom of its visionary and global leader Dr. Daisaku Ikeda. Without him, there would have been no SOKA University.

Through its conferment on me on 15 March 2002 with the degree of Doctor, Honoris Causa, I have become a proud alumnus of our beloved SOKA University, to which I returned to its hallowed grounds as a speaker at its Commencement Exercises on March 18, 2015.

On this celebration of its 50th anniversary on April 2, 2021, SOKA University can stand proudest in humility, with authentic golden harvests of men and women who hold high the beacon light of humanistic education and a new culture of love, justice, unity, and peace for a troubled world which now faces the worst pandemic.

Despite everything, the best are yet to come. Our SOKA University will be at the forefront to realize these in the next fifty years and beyond.

All hail to our beloved SOKA University! More power to Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, the University and its officials and personnel, and the alumni.