SCAPIN-0448 ABOLITION OF GOVERNMENTAL SPONSORSHIP, SUPPORT, PERPETUATION, CONTROL AND DISSEMINATION OF STATE SHINTO
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS 15 December 1945 AG 000.3 (15 Dec 45) CIE (SCAPIN-448) MEMORANDUM FOR: IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. THROUGH : Central Liaison Office, Tokyo. SUBJECT : Abolition of Governmental Sponsorship, Support, Perpetuation, Control, and Dissemination of State Shinto (Kokka Shinto, Jinja Shinto). 1. In order to free the Japanese people from direct or indirect compulsion to believe or profess to believe in a religion or cult officially designated by the state, and In order to lift from the Japanese people the burden of compulsory financial support of an ideology which has contributed to their war guilt, defeat, suffering, privation, and present deplorable condition, and In order to prevent a recurrence of the perversion of Shinto theory and beliefs into militaristic and ultra-nationalistic ...