How much does the Japanese royal family spend every year?

The Japanese royal family is the oldest royal family in the world. The emperor is not only the head of the family, but also a symbol of the integration of Japan and Japanese nationals according to the constitution. However, compared with ordinary Japanese, the palace has many special places. For example, the royal family did not have a surname at first, nor did it have the right to vote and appeal, nor did it have the freedom to choose a career. Before World War II, the Japanese Emperor family was the largest chaebol in Japan and the largest chaebol in the world. After the defeat, the Allied Command in Japan led by MacArthur taxed its assets by more than 90%, forcing its chaebol to disintegrate. According to Article 88 of the new Constitution, all royal property belongs to the state. The royal family does not keep private property, and even palaces are only provided to the royal family free of charge in the form of state property. All expenses for the maintenance of the royal family and the sacrificial ceremony of the emperor's state behavior are paid by the National Assembly from the state finance every year. So we can say that the current Japanese royal family is completely supported by the tax money of the Japanese people. So what's the approximate cost? According to the statistics of Heisei 17, the entries are as follows: 1. The legal costs were 6.27783 billion yen. The cost of the palace is 324 million yen (the cost is fixed every year). The former refers to the expenses used for public expenditure, including the management of state-owned property such as the royal family, court dinners of state guests, garden parties of celebrities, foreign/local visits of the royal family, and various traditional royal ceremonies. The latter is the private expenses of the royal family, including about 34% of employment expenses, 13% of meals, 18% of clothing expenses, 7% of social communication expenses, and 1 1% of medical expenses. These two expenses are managed by the Palace Office. 3。 The royal family fee was 269.67 million yen. Strictly speaking, the royal family includes the Emperor and Empress, the family of the Crown Prince, and the unmarried children of the Emperor. This fee is for the royal family who left the royal family because they got married and set up another palace. Specifically, 30.5 million yen is paid to the palace owners, 6.5438+0.525 million yen to the princesses, and the rest is mainly used for personnel expenses and property expenses. Compared with the royal family, the income of each palace is relatively limited, and it is more difficult to maintain the basic face as a royal family. Hirohito's younger brother, now the Emperor's uncle Prince Sankong, was resigned by the driver because of his low salary, and finally had to take the commuter train to work by himself, which became a small joke after World War II. Therefore, the life ceremony of the great emperor (such as the once-in-a-lifetime ceremony of the emperor's accession to the throne, big funeral, big wedding, big taste sacrifice, etc.) is excluded. ), the Japanese royal family spends about 6.8765438+0.5 million yen a year on Japanese tax payment. It is equivalent to about 506 million yuan.