[1] The process which led to the establishment of the shrine began mid-1930s when the regional planning agency (Nan'yō Takushoku) was charged with the Japanization of Micronesia.

[2] The chief advocate for the shrine was Domoto Teiichi, who had been the Private Secretary to the Governor of the South Seas Mandate since 1936.

[3] The shrine was construed by the Japanese government as marking "a step forward in the sacred task of constructing a New East Asian Order.

"[4] When Allied forces threatened Palau in late 1944, the kami and sacred symbols of the shrine were evacuated to Japan by submarine.

The shrine remained untouched by American bombing, but Japan's defeat in World War II ended its administration.