Heijō Shrine (Japanese: 平壌神社, Hepburn: Heijō jinja, Korean: 평양신사) was a Shinto shrine in Pyongyang, Korea during the Japanese colonial period.

[citation needed] The shrine was destroyed on August 16, 1945: just after Japan first announced its surrender in World War II.

That day, local Koreans set fire to the shrine and destroyed it.

Hundreds of similar cases arose throughout the peninsula in the following week.

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