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Nan'yō Shrine

Palau

Nanyo Shrine (, Nan'yō-jinja) was a Shinto shrine located on the island of Koror, in Palau. The shrine was the ichinomiya (highest ranking shrine) of the government of the South Seas Mandate, a League of Nations mandated territory administered by the Empire of Japan. It was established in 1940 and designated for the veneration of Amaterasu-Ōmikami.

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