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What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?

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The only widely circulated figure for Meiji Shrine, an estimated 1.3 billion yen over the three-day New Year holiday, comes from an outside estimator rather than the shrine's own published accounts and covers only that three-day window; Japan's Religious Corporations Law exempts worship-related income from the disclosure that would otherwise make a fuller, annual figure available.

What would resolve this A voluntary published account from Meiji Shrine's own administration naming its annual offering income or operating budget, or a change in Japanese religious corporation disclosure requirements.
OpenJapanese religious corporation law and Shinto shrine administration, and financial or investigative journalism covering Japan's religious institutions.Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)
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Source Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku
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Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)
Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, The Japan Times (reproduced on Green Shinto), 2018View the Source
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