A 6 September 2004 Forbes magazine feature on Soka Gakkai and Daisaku Ikeda, reporting a Japanese parliamentarian's estimate, about a decade earlier, that Ikeda's Soka Gakkai empire was worth 100 billion dollars, a figure Soka Gakkai disputed; Forbes' own conservative estimate of at least 1.5 billion dollars a year in organizational revenue; and Soka University of America's reported assets of over 740 million dollars to the US Internal Revenue Service.
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Tier 2: a 6 September 2004 Forbes magazine feature, read directly, profiling Soka Gakkai and its then honorary president Daisaku Ikeda. It reports that a Japanese parliamentarian had, about a decade before publication, put the value of Ikeda's Soka Gakkai empire at 100 billion dollars, a figure the organization called wrong while otherwise declining to discuss its finances, gives Forbes' own conservative estimate of at least 1.5 billion dollars a year in the organization's revenue based on membership, tithing and commercial activities, and reports that the affiliated Soka University of America told the US Internal Revenue Service its own assets exceeded 740 million dollars. A national business magazine's own investigative estimate rather than an audited financial statement, explicitly disputed in part by its subject. Citation
PublisherForbes
Publication Year2004
URLhttps://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0906/126.html
Source Typemagazine feature
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