Nisshō Inoue

Nisshō Inoue
Born
Inoue Shirō

(1887-04-12)April 12, 1887
DiedMarch 4, 1967(1967-03-04) (aged 79)
NationalityJapanese

Nisshō Inoue (井上 日召, Inoue Nisshō; April 12, 1887 March 4, 1967) was a radical Buddhist preacher of Nichirenism who founded the interwar Japanese far-right militant organization Ketsumeidan (血盟団, League of Blood). Contrary to popular belief, he was never an ordained Nichiren priest, but was rather a self-styled preacher whose extremist tenets were widely denounced by Japan's mainline Nichiren Buddhist establishment of the time.