Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as part of her mission to Japan where, among other things, the handover of leadership of the G7 with Premier Kishida is expected, stopped at the Meiji shrine where she followed a route opened on an extraordinary basis on the occasion of his visit to Tokyo.
The sanctuary with its large park around it is one of the major attractions of the capital and of all of Japan, visited by millions of people every year. The heart of the site, built at the beginning of the 20th century, is the Shinto temple dedicated to the 122nd Japanese emperor, Meiji, and his consort, Empress Shoken, considered the modernizers of Japan.
The Emperor died at the age of 59 and shortly afterwards his wife Shoken decided to take her own life. The temple, designed by the architect Ito Chuta, was finished and consecrated in 1920. During the Second World War, like much of Tokyo and Japan, it was almost completely razed to the ground and in 1958 its radical renovation began.
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