This article focuses in two ways on Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) and language and culture education. First, the author excerpts Ikeda's translated and lesser-known Japanese speeches to explicate his view of world language learning and cultural exchange as curricular components of a broader educational philosophy for becoming "fully human." Second, the author presents findings from a critical instrumental case study that used ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to examine how students realize Ikeda's philosophy through their language learning and study abroad experiences. (Contains 4 footnotes.)