Editing Happy Science (section)

{{short description|New religious movement founded in Japan by Ryuho Okawa}}
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{{Infobox organization
| image = RO symbol of HS.svg
| caption = Happy Science logo
| formation = {{start date and age|1986|10|6|df=y}}
| type = [[Japanese new religion|Japanese new religious movement]]
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| headquarters =  1-2-38 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022, Japan
| leader_title = [[spiritual leader|Master]]
| leader_name = [[Ryuho Okawa]]
| leader_title2 = El Cantare
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| name = Happy Science{{pb}} 幸福の科学
| founders = [[Ryuho Okawa]]
| membership    = {{ubl|11{{nbsp}}million (self-claimed)<ref name="fumika" />|38,000 (JGSS survey estimate)<ref name="Agora">{{Cite news|trans-title=What is the true number of believers in each religion such as Soka Gakkai and the former Unification Church? |script-title=ja:創価学会や旧統一教会など各宗教の本当の信者数は？ |lang=ja |url=https://agora-web.jp/archives/221120211705.html|author=Kazuo Yawata|newspaper=[[Agora (Media)|Agora]]|date=21 November 2022|access-date = 18 April 2024}}</ref>|30,000 (Kyoko Okawa's estimate)|13,000 (Hirohiro Okawa's estimate)}}
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| former name  = The Institute for Research in Human Happiness (until 2008){{efn|name=name|The Institute for Research in Human Happiness was the official English name until 2008, while the Japanese name was, and continues to be, {{nihongo3|"Happy Science"|幸福の科学}}. The English name was abbreviated IRH or IRHH.<ref>{{cite book |title=Handbook of UFO Religions |date=March 8, 2021 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004435537 |page=491 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkswEAAAQBAJ |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref>}}
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[[File:Master Ryuho Okawa, Feb. 15, 2015.jpg|thumb|Ryuho Okawa, 15 February 2015]]
{{Nihongo|'''Happy Science'''|幸福の科学|Kōfuku-no-Kagaku}}, formerly known as '''the Institute for Research in Human Happiness''',{{efn|name=name}} is a [[new religious movement|new religious]] movement founded in Japan on 6 October 1986 by former Wall Street trader [[Ryuho Okawa]], whose followers regarded him as the incarnation of a supreme being from Venus.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/happy-science-japan-coronavirus-cure.html | title=Inside the Fringe Japanese Religion That Claims It Can Cure Covid-19 | newspaper=The New York Times | date=16 April 2020 | last1=Kestenbaum | first1=Sam }}</ref> Happy Science has been described as a [[cult]].

The Happy Science group includes a publication division called IRH Press, schools such as Happy Science Academy and Happy Science University, a political party called the [[Happiness Realization Party]], and three media entertainment divisions, which are called New Star Production, ARI Production and HS Pictures Studio.