Editing Soka Gakkai (section)

==Economic and social influence==
The Soka Gakkai is the head of a media, political and financial empire. Levi McLaughlin writes that "exerts considerable influence in the fields of education, media, finance, and culture throughout Japan".<ref name="University of Hawaii Press">{{cite book |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Levi |url=https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/soka-gakkais-human-revolution-the-rise-of-a-mimetic-nation-in-modern-japan/ |title=Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan |date=2018 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-7542-8 |location=Honolulu}}</ref>

===Tax situation===
Legally declared in Japan as a religious juridical person since 1952, Soka Gakkai is not subject to taxation as an organization.

Though, it has been sued by Japanese tax authorities in 1991 for evading taxes on profits of 2.3 billion yen, which were obtained through tombstone transactions.

===Assets===
Estimates about Soka Gakkai’s financial assets are imperfect since "they cannot accurately assess the full value of the Gakkai’s thousands of facilities, its stocks and other investments, its holdings overseas, or Ikeda Daisaku’s personal wealth".<ref name="University of Hawaii Press"/>

According to the magazine Shûkan Daiyamondo (June 2016), the assets of the organization include fourteen corporations, investments in 331 other companies for 18 billion yens, holding overseas, and real estate holdings.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} ''Forbes'' magazine estimated (2004) that the organization has an income of at least $1.5 billion per year.<ref name=forbes>{{cite news|title=Sensei's World|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0906/126.html|access-date=4 December 2013|newspaper=Forbes|date=9 June 2006|author=Benjamin Fulford|author2=David Whelan}}</ref>  In 2008, religion scholar Hiroshi Shimada has estimated the wealth of the Soka Gakkai at ¥500 billion.<ref name=matsutani>{{cite news|last=Matsutani|first=Minoru|title=Soka Gakkai keeps religious, political machine humming|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/12/02/news/soka-gakkai-keeps-religious-political-machine-humming/|access-date=6 December 2013|newspaper=The Japan Times|date=2 December 2008|archive-date=11 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211155325/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/12/02/news/soka-gakkai-keeps-religious-political-machine-humming/}}</ref>

===Press and publishing companies===
Daisaku Ikeda's writings are the roots of a massive publishing and media enterprise. The Gakkai's newspaper, [[Seikyo Shimbun|Seikyō shinbun]], has an important readership base. But it is only sold in Soka Gakkai's venues, and mainly bought and read by Soka Gakkai's members, though its print run is impossible to verify.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Seager|first1=Richard|title=Encountering the Dharma|date=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-52024577-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/encounteringdhar0000seag/page/7 7]|url=https://archive.org/details/encounteringdhar0000seag}}</ref>

The Soka Gakkai owns publishing companies, in Japan but also abroad. They are in charge of the translation and publishing of ''[[The Human Revolution]]'', Daisaku's Ikeda novel (World Tribune Press in the USA ; Eternal Ganges in India ; Soka Gakkai International Publishers Group in Germany...)