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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, 7 March 2018, reproduced on Green Shinto, 8 March 2018
Green Shinto's reproduction of a Japan Times article, byline Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, on the structural absence of income disclosure at Japanese Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples under the Religious Corporations Law, published 7 March 2018.
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Tier 3: Green Shinto's verbatim reproduction of a Japan Times article, byline Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, published 7 March 2018, read directly because the original sits behind the Japan Times' own paywall, which this pass could not cross. The article states plainly that Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan do not disclose how much they receive in offerings, that Japan's Religious Corporations Law exempts income associated with worship from tax and from the disclosure that would otherwise accompany it, and that even the widely repeated New Year estimate for Meiji Shrine, about 1.3 billion yen over three days, comes from an outside estimator, AndYou.media, not from the shrine's own published figures. Neither Ise Grand Shrine nor Yasukuni Shrine is named with any figure. A secondhand but verbatim reproduction of a named news article, not the original outlet itself. Citation
AuthorPhilip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku
PublisherThe Japan Times (reproduced on Green Shinto)
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://greenshinto.com/wp/2018/03/08/shrine-funds
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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
Claims Backed By This Source (41 claims)
This source backs 41 claims across the atlas. As facts: 28 well-attested, 3 open question. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 3 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Open Questions, 24 claims: 18 well-attested, 3 connected, 3 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 9 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 open question, 3 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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