Ryuho Okawa Biography

Ryuho Okawa (大川 隆法, Ōkawa Ryūhō, born Takashi Nakagawa on July 7, 1956 in Tokushima Prefecture) is the CEO and founder of the Happy Science religious organization and the Happiness Realization Party in Japan. His organization has been widely criticised as a cult. Adherents of the religion worship Okawa as "El Cantare", the reincarnated consciousness of Buddha.