Shinohara Yoshinori

Secretary-General of Asian Conference of Religions for Peace, Rissho Kosei-kai

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Yoshinori Shinohara is secretary general of the Asian Conference of Religions for Peace and secretary general of Religions for Peace-Japan.

After graduating from Tokyo's Gakurin Seminary in 1998, he was ordained as a Dharma teacher in Rissho Kosei-kai, one of Japan's main Buddhist denominations.

In 1998 he received a master's degree in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, and in 2005 he began working for Religions for Peace-Japan.

He led the ARMS DOWN! campaign for disarmament and the Millennium Development Goals in 2010.

Rev. Shinohara received a master's degree in Public Policy from Tohoku University in 2014 and a doctorate in Human Security Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2021.