Tokyo Shōkonsha was renamed Yasukuni Shrine and given the status of “special governmental shrine” in 1879. The above photograph comes from a collection of notable sites in Tokyo, published in 1910. From the National Diet Library website.
Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery, established in Tokyo in 1959, features the Hexagonal Hall, which houses the remains of 358,260 soldiers and civilians, as of May 2013.
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