In 1933 he met Mahatma Gandhi at his ashram in Wardha. Gandhi was honored by his presence, and added the "daimoku" to his ashram's prayers. During WWII and despite the dangers to himself he declared himself in favour of pacifism and went round Japan actively promoting it. He later recollected: “The Pacific war raged ever more brutally. I could no longer...keep silent about the war, in which people were killing one another. Thus I traveled through the whole of Japan and preached resistance against the war and the prayer for peace. It was a time in which any person who only spoke about resistance to the war, would go to prison because of that alone”.