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Whatever gods occupied Japan was turning to, they were not the overthrown gods of State Shinto. At the Grand Shrine of Ise, during the New Year’s festival, only 80,000 worshippers appeared; in previous years 400,000 came. At the famed Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, where once 2,000,000 made their pilgrimage, the number dropped to 730,000.
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