Q: Who is noted for being the only Eurasian person to be commemorated in Japan's Shinto shrine that is located in Chiyoda, Tokya, Japan?
Ryō Kurusu
Ryō Kurusu
Ryō Kurusu (来栖良 , "Ryō Kurusu" , January 8, 1919 – February 17, 1945) was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army.
 He is noted for being the only Eurasian (American-Japanese Hāfu) person to be commemorated in Japan's Yasukuni Shrine.
Yasukuni Shrine
The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, informally known as the Yasukuni Shrine (Yasukuni Jinja ) , is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
 It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of the Empire of Japan, which existed from the Meiji Restoration of 1869 until the nation was renamed during the Allied occupation in 1947.
 The shrine's purpose has been expanded over the years to include those who died in the wars involving Japan spanning from the entire Meiji and Taishō period, and lesser part of the Shōwa period.
Hikawa Shrine (Akasaka)
Hikawa Shrine (氷川神社 , Hikawa-jinja ) is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.
 In Tokyo, it is the best known of the 59 branch shrines of the Hikawa jinja, which was designated as the chief Shinto shrine ("ichinomiya") for the former Musashi province. Kanda Shrine
Kanda Shrine (神田明神 , Kanda-myōjin , officially 神田神社 "Kanda-jinja") , is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
 The shrine dates back 1,270 years, but the current structure was rebuilt several times due to fire and earthquakes.
 It is situated in one of the most expensive estate areas of Tokyo.
 Kanda Shrine was an important shrine to both the warrior class and citizens of Japan, especially during the Edo period, when shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu paid his respects at Kanda Shrine.
 Due in part to the proximity of the Kanda Shrine to Akihabara, the shrine has become a mecca for the technophiles who frequent Akihabara. Hinokuma Shrine
Hinokuma Shrine (日前神宮, "Hinokuma jingu") and Kunikakasu Shrine (國懸神宮, "Kunikakasu jingu") is a Shinto shrine complex in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
 It is officially known simply as nichizengū (日前宮 ) .
 Its main festival is held annually on September 26.
 It shares the rank of the Ise Grand Shrine in the shinkai system.
 It was formerly an imperial shrine of the first rank (官幣大社, "kanpei taisha") in the Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines.
 It was also formerly the ichinomiya of Kii Province. Ōgon Shrine
The Ōgon Shrine (黄金神社 , Ōgon Jinja ) also known as the Jinguashi Shinto Shrine, Gold Temple or Spirits of the Mountain Shrine (山神社 "yama jinja") is a Shinto shrine located halfway up a mountain at Siping Lane (四平街) in the Gold Ecological Park in Jinguashi, Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan (formerly Kinkaseki, Zuihō town, Kirun district, Taihoku Prefecture during Japanese rule) Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
There are major controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine, a Japanese Shinto shrine to war dead who served the Emperor of Japan during wars from 1867–1951.
 This eligibility includes civilians in service and government officials.
 Yasukuni is a shrine to house the dead as "kami", or "spirits/souls".
 This activity is claimed to be merely a religious matter due to the separation of State Shinto and the Japanese Government.
 The priesthood at the shrine has complete religious autonomy to decide to whom and how enshrinement may occur.
 It is thought that enshrinement is permanent and irreversible by the current clergy.
 Due to the enshrinement of individuals found to be war criminals by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and an approach to the war museum considered by some to be nationalist, China, South Korea, North Korea and Taiwan have called the Yasukuni Shrine a microcosm of a revisionist and unapologetic approach to Japanese crimes of World War II. Hachiman shrine
A Hachiman shrine (八幡神社 , Hachiman Jinja ) is a Shinto shrine dedicated to "kami" Hachiman.
 It is the second most numerous type of Shinto shrine after those dedicated to Inari Ōkami (see Inari shrine). Izumo-taisha
Izumo-taisha (出雲大社 , "Izumo Grand Shrine") , officially Izumo Ōyashiro, is one of the most ancient and important Shinto shrines in Japan.
 No record gives the date of establishment.
 Located in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, it is home to two major festivals.
 It is dedicated to the god Ōkuninushi (大国主大神, "Ōkuninushi-no-ōkami"), famous as the Shinto deity of marriage and to Kotoamatsukami, distinguishing heavenly "kami".
 The shrine is believed by many to be the oldest Shinto shrine in Japan, even predating the Ise Grand Shrine. Ōmiwa Shrine
Ōmiwa Shrine (大神神社 , Ōmiwa-jinja ) , also known as Miwa Shrine (三輪神社 , Miwa-jinja , alternately written as 三輪明神 "Miwa-myōjin") , is a Shinto shrine located in Sakurai, Nara, Japan.
 The shrine is noted because it contains no sacred images or objects because it is believed to serve Mount Miwa, the mountain on which it stands.
 For the same reason, it has a worship hall (拝殿 , "haiden" ) , but no place for the deity to be housed (神殿 , "shinden" ) .
 In this sense, it is a model of what the first Shinto shrines were like.
 Ōmiwa Shrine is one of the oldest extant Shinto shrines in Japan and the site has been sacred ground for some of the earliest religious practices in Japan.
 Because of this, it has sometimes been named as Japan's first shrine.
 Ōmiwa Shrine is a tutelary shrine of the Japanese sake brewers.