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Jōsei Toda (戸田 城聖 Toda Jōsei February 11 1900 – April 2 1958) was an educator peace activist and second president of Soka Gakkai from 1951 to 1958. Like his mentor Tsunesaburō Makiguchi he was disillusioned with the Japanese educational system — which he thought of as suppressive of individual thought and as geared toward the interests of the state — Toda took immediate interest in Makiguchi’s pedagogical theories when they met in 1920.