The stress placed on beauty led to the opening last year of the Miho Museum near Kyoto, Japan, designed by Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. Despite years of charitable activities with a focus on disarmament, human rights and humanitarian relief, the group remains stained by allegations from murder to rape. There is even a Soka Gakkai Victims Association, which in 1995 had 10,000 members, according to Time magazine. But the organization continues to instill fear in many. They are authoritarian and the emphasis is that if you leave them you're leaving God and the truth.
Sexual sins seem to be regarded as a graver problem.