More on Soka Gakkai's deceptive membership statistics practices in Japan

Present membership is estimated at 2,700,000 households. ^17

^17 Akio Saki, "Shukyo Dantai to Nihon no Seiji," Asahi Shimbun, June 12, 1962; Takao Nakao, "Soka Gakkai," The Mainichi, June 16, 1962. This number is usually multiplied by two or three to compute the total number of adherents. A Nichiren Shoshu priest and active worker in Soka Gakkai states in the June, 1961, issue of Contemporary Religions in Japan (Vol. II, No. 2, P. 11): "Not all members of each household are believers. In some cases the wife is the believer and the husband is opposed. However, the group counts all the members of each household as believers even though only one member is a real believer. There may be as many as 5 million individual believers. We do not know." He stated in the same article that "At present Soka Gakkai adherents number about 1.5 million households." (p. 9) - From footnote 17, p. 102-103 http://tinyurl.com/q7hmmxr