Shonan Chureito World War II Memorial

The Syonan Chureito (Shonan Chureito) was a Japanese war memorial and Shinto shrine on Bukit Batok Hill, Singapore, built between June and December 1942 by about 500 Australian prisoners of war to honour Japanese soldiers who fell in the Battle of Bukit Timah. The 12-metre wooden monument, topped with a brass cone, was demolished after Japan's surrender and the ashes it held were re-interred at the Japanese Cemetery Park. Only two entrance pillars and 120 steps remain today, leading up to a Mediacorp transmission tower; a memorial plaque was erected in the 1980s and the site was gazetted by Singapore's National Heritage Board in 1995 as one of 11 WWII sites.