 It was also to be the second-greatest shrine of the Shinto faith after the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.Just before the Japanese officially surrendered on 15 August in 1945, they destroyed and burnt the shrine to the ground in fear of its desecration by the returning British forces.The ruins of Syonan Jinja (down to a few remaining support structures and broken pieces and chunks) can still be found in the dense tropical forest of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, in which includes the MacRitchie Reservoir.