Home›Open Questions›What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?Open QuestionsWhat Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-annual-income-does-meiji-shrine-disclose-beyond-the-estimated-new-year-figure.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-annual-income-does-meiji-shrine-disclose-beyond-the-estimated-new-year-figureCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-annual-income-does-meiji-shrine-dis, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-annual-income-does-meiji-shrine-disclose-beyond-the-estimated-new-year-figure}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe 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)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnMeiji Shrine, Sacred Sites Well-attested Source Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubukutier 3SourcesShrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)tier 3Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, The Japan Times (reproduced on Green Shinto), 2018View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year