Kanto Shrine

Japanese: 関東神宮 - かんとうじんぐう

A shrine located in Port Arthur, Liaoning Province, China. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan leased the Liaodong Peninsula and called it the Kwantung Leased Territory. As Japanese people immigrated to the Kwantung Leased Territory, shrines such as Sekisui Shrine and Dairen Shrine were built, but in 1938 the government decided to build Kanto Shrine in Port Arthur, where the Kwantung Government Office and Kwantung Army Headquarters were located and which was also the base of the Navy, as a shrine to protect the Kwantung Leased Territory. Like the Korean Shrine, Kanto Shrine enshrines Amaterasu Omikami and Emperor Meiji, and is ranked as a government-sponsored shrine. However, construction took time, and the enshrinement ceremony was finally held on October 1, 1944.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国遼寧省旅順市にあった神社。日露戦争後，日本は遼東半島を租借地とし，関東州と呼んだ。関東州には，日本人の移住につれて，関水神社，大連神社などが建てられたが，1938年政府は，関東庁，関東軍司令部が置かれ，海軍の根拠地でもあった旅順に，関東州鎮護の神社として関東神宮の創建を決定した。関東神宮は，朝鮮神宮と同じく，天照大神，明治天皇を祭神とし，社格は官幣大社に列せられたが，造営に時日を要し，ようやく44年10月1日に鎮座の儀が行われた。

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