Bingjiangguan Temple

Bingjiangguan Temple (兵將官祠) was a small roadside shrine in Wugu, New Taipei, most recently rebuilt in 1983. It primarily venerated Tudigong but a side altar featured an unusual idol in a green military peaked cap, reputedly a Japanese navy admiral enshrined under mysterious circumstances sometime after 1945. One account holds that it commemorates stranded Japanese soldiers who, starving after the surrender, were beaten to death by villagers for stealing sweet potatoes. The idols and censer had been removed by October 2022, and the shrine was demolished for redevelopment soon after; the deities were reportedly relocated, but their whereabouts remain unknown.