Editing Soka Gakkai (section)

===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>