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Wakayama Gokoku Shrine

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Wakayama Gokoku Shrine
Religion
AffiliationShinto
TypeGokoku shrine
(Formerly Shokonsha)
Glossary of Shinto

ja:和歌山県護国神社

Wakayama Gokoku Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Japan. It is a Gokoku Shrine, or a shrine dedicated to war dead.[lower-alpha 1] Such shrines were made to serve to enshrine the war dead, and they were all considered "branches" of Yasukuni Shrine. They were renamed from Shokonsha in 1939.[1]

With the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration in August 1945, Japan became the first country to receive the occupation, Gokoku Shrine was considered a militarist institution and had to be renamed, for example, by removing the word "Gokoku" from its name, in order to ensure its continued existence.[lower-alpha 2] When the San Francisco Peace Treaty went into effect in 1952 and Japan regained its sovereignty, the majority of the renamed shrines returned to their former names. After World War II, some of the designated shrines of the Jinja Honcho became Beppyo Shrines.

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  1. Is this WP:BLUE considering that the shrine is literally named as such?
  2. Among the designated Gokoku Shrines, Aomori Gokoku Shrine, Wakayama Gokoku Shrine, and Tokushima Gokoku Shrine, which was destroyed by fire during the war, did not change their names and kept the name "Gokoku Shrine.

References[edit]

  1. TAKAYAMA, K. PETER (1990). "Enshrinement and Persistency of Japanese Religion". Journal of Church and State. 32 (3): 527–547. ISSN 0021-969X.


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