Wikipedia's article on the Association of Shinto Shrines (Jinja Honcho), community-edited. Reliable for the association's founding: on 2 February 1946, in direct response to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers' 15 December 1945 Shinto Directive disestablishing State Shinto, three existing organizations formed Jinja Honcho as a nongovernmental religious corporation under Japan's Religious Corporation Law, assuming the functions of the former government Institute of Divinities and giving Japan's shrines an independent legal footing for the first time.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Shinto_Shrines
Source Typereference
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3, on a well documented and dated 1946 institutional founding with no controversy attached to the date or circumstances. NotesUsed for the 1946 founding of the Association of Shinto Shrines following the 1945 GHQ Shinto Directive already on Shinto's map.
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