Home›Sources›Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)SourcesShrine 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 2018Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/greenshinto-2018-japantimes-shrine-funds-disclosure.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/greenshinto-2018-japantimes-shrine-funds-disclosureCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-shrine-funds-japan-s-religious-sites-and, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/greenshinto-2018-japantimes-shrine-funds-disclosure}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXGreen 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.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (41 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested3Tier 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.CitationAuthorWell-attestedPhilip Brasor and Masako TsubukuPublisherWell-attestedThe Japan Times (reproduced on Green Shinto)Publication YearWell-attested2018URLWell-attestedhttps://greenshinto.com/wp/2018/03/08/shrine-fundsSource TypeWell-attestednewsCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithJapan, Countries Well-attested This source names Japan directly: "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..."Source Shrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubukutier 3Claims 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 TopicOpen 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.Well-attested28Open QuestionsWhat Annual Income Does Ise Grand Shrine Disclose, if Any?What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?What Annual Income Does Yasukuni Shrine Disclose, if Any?Sacred SitesIse Grand ShrineMeiji ShrineYasukuni ShrineSourcesShrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)Open question3Sacred SitesIse Grand ShrineMeiji ShrineYasukuni ShrineHolds1SourcesShrine Funds: Japan's Religious Sites and Their Undisclosed Cash (Japan Times via Green Shinto, 2018)Connected3Open QuestionsWhat Annual Income Does Ise Grand Shrine Disclose, if Any?What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?What Annual Income Does Yasukuni Shrine Disclose, if Any?General References6Open QuestionsWhat Annual Income Does Ise Grand Shrine Disclose, if Any?What Annual Income Does Meiji Shrine Disclose, Beyond the Estimated New Year Figure?What Annual Income Does Yasukuni Shrine Disclose, if Any?Sacred SitesIse Grand ShrineMeiji ShrineYasukuni ShrineComments (0)No comments yet. 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