Overseas Shinto

The San Marino shrine was inaugurated in the presence of 150 personalities including the president of the Association of Shinto Shrines and Yoko Kishi, mother of the former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe and daughter of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.

[4] In Japanese-controlled territories (China, Korea, the Pacific Islands, Singapore, Taiwan, Manchukuo and Karafuto Prefecture), shrines were erected by both Japanese settlers and colonial authorities.

These shrines were built by decree of the governor and without consultation with the Shinto clergy, and their policies were determined by the military.

Thus, the spirits of George Washington and Hawaiian King Kamehameha I entered the local pantheon.

[11][12] Two Shinto shrines were built in Brazil before the outbreak of World War II, both in the state of São Paulo.

A Shinto rite carried out at a jinja in San Marino , Southern Europe
The Chōsen Jingū in Seoul , Korea, established during the Japanese occupation of the peninsula