Japanese cemeteries and cenotaphs

Many Japanese cemeteries (日本人墓地, Nihonjin bochi) and cenotaphs are located outside of Japan for Japanese people who have died in war or other historical events. This article lists tombs and burial places.

History

The oldest known Japantown featuring a Japanese cemetery is in Ayutthaya, Thailand, which was established between the 14th and 18th centuries. The oldest known Japanese national recorded by name and buried outside Japan is the early explorer Yamada Nagamasa.

Wars, particularly World War II, have accounted for a majority of the Japanese burial sites located outside of Japan. There is a cemetery for the Imperial Japanese Navy in Malta, multiple cites for Japanese prisoners of war in Siberia, and many Pacific War sites, which include Japanese cemeteries, cenotaphs, and remains in the Nanpō Islands, the Philippines, New Guinea, and other Pacific Islands. There have been multiple efforts by veteran organizations and the Japanese government to return remains to living relatives.

Monuments to victims of the United States' internment of citizens of Japanese ancestry are prevalent in the western US.

Location and names of cemeteries, cenotaphs, and tombs

Afghanistan

Bhutan

Cambodia

China

India

  • Imphal: Cenotaph for Japanese war casualties in the Battle of Imphal (Japanese: インパール作戦戦没者勇士の碑, Hepburn: Inpaaru sakusen senbotsusha yuushi no hi))
  • Worli, Mumbai: Mumbai Japanese cemetery; 3000 Japanese lived in the Mumbai area to procure cotton in the early Shōwa period. Most of the remains and property of the deceased were brought back to Japan, and the remains of only 30 people remain in Mumbai as of 2008.

Indonesia

Kazakhstan

Laos

  • Vientiane Province, Nam Ngum Dam: The grave site of several Japanese engineers surveying possible dam locations who died in December 1960 when their boat overturned. The burial site is in close proximity to the dam.[6]

Malaysia

  • Labuan, Borneo, Labuan Peace Park: Monument for war casualties in the Borneo war (ボルネオ戦没者の碑, Boruneo senbotsusha no hi) for the 12,000 men who died during the war in Borneo and the surrounding ocean area. Constructed by the Japanese government and with the cooperation of government of Malaysia and the government of Sabah in September 1982.[7]
  • Kota Kinabalu Japanese cemetery
  • Sandakan Japanese cemetery
  • Tawau Japanese cemetery
  • Kuala Lumpur Japanese cemetery. Cenotaph for the people who died on Japan Airlines Flight 715.
  • Johor Bahru Japanese cemetery
  • Kuching Japanese cemetery
  • Miri Japanese cemetery (in Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang College)
  • Penang Japanese cemetery
  • Ipoh Japanese cemetery
  • Malacca Japanese cemetery
  • Kuala Terengganu Japanese cemetery

Mongolia

To resolve the lack of labor, the Mongolian government requested to transfer Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union in October and December 1945, and approximately 12,318 Japanese prisoners were forced to work, from which more than 1,600 have died.[8] There are 16 Japanese cemeteries including those listed below.

Myanmar

  • Yangon Japanese cemetery: For Karayuki-san and Pacific War casualties. Monument of Peace, Burma (ビルマ平和記念碑, Biruma heiwa kinen hi), memorial to the approximately 190,000 Japanese who died in war and prayed for peace. It was constructed by the Japanese government in March 1981 before being moved and expanded in size by the Myanmar government in March 1998.)

Nepal

North Korea

Cemetery and burial place of Japanese who lived in the South Korea area before and after World War II. There are 71 cemeteries and burial places in North Korea.[10]

  • Suburb of Pyongyang: Yongsan cemetery (龍山墓地); 2,421 people evacuated to Pyongyang after the end of World War II, August 15, 1945, and died in the period of October 1945 to April 1946 due to cold temperature, stagnant and/or illness.[11]
  • Hamhung: Cemetery and burial place.

Philippines

One of the bloodiest battlefields of the Pacific War; there are many cenotaphs.[12]

  • Luzon: Approximately 270 cenotaphs in various locations. KalayaanCenotaph of those who died in the Philippine war (比島戦没者の碑, fuiripin senbutsusha no hi), commemorate approximate 500,000 Japanese war dead in Battle of Luzon. Constructed by Japanese government in March 1973.[13]
  • Visayas: Approximately 110 cenotaphs in various locations; Japanese casualties of Battle of the Visayas.
  • Mindanao: Approximately 20 cenotaphs in various locations; Japanese casualties of Battle of Mindanao.
  • Leyte: Cenotaph in Tacloban, Ormoc and various locations. approximately 80,000 Japanese killed in action out of 520,000 casualties in Battle of Leyte. Guanyin, Madonna Maria (マドンナマリア観音, Madonna Maria Kanon), a peace commemoration statue between Asia, including Philippines, and Japan in the Kanfuraw Hill where Tacloban City hall is. There is Isao Yamazoe (山添 勇夫) Shrine in Dulag Airfield.
  • Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Samar: Cenotaph in Dumpao Beach.

Russia (Asia region)

Singapore

South Korea

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Thailand

Uzbekistan

There are thirteen Japanese cemeteries in Uzbekistan.[21][22]

Vietnam

Hội An: Hội An Japanese cemetery memorializing 30 years after the Sakoku and the Japanese started foreign trade by the red seal ships. As a result, Japanese residents of Vietnam could not return to Japan and died there.

Madagascar

  • Two cenotaphs of four Japanese Imperial Japanese Navy killed in Battle of Madagascar in Antsiranana, named Diego-Suarez prior to 1975. First cenotaph for two of four Japanese was constructed in 1976 by the Japanese embassy. Second cenotaph of four was constructed by voluntary efforts of war veterans in 1997.

Australia

Guam

  • South Pacific Memorial Park, cenotaph of South Pacific war dead and ossuary built in May 1970.[26]

New Zealand

Northern Mariana Islands

  • Banzai Cliff, North end of Saipan: Cenotaph for war casualties in the central Pacific Ocean (中部太平洋戦没者の碑, Chubu taiheiyou senbotsusha no hi) for 43,000 Japanese killed in action and 12,000 citizens killed in the war regardless of nationality including Japanese migrants to the Saipan, Tinian, Guam islands until the end of the war in 1945. It was constructed by the Japanese government with the cooperation of the Northern Mariana Islands government in March 1974.

Papua New Guinea

  • Wewak: Cenotaph for war casualties in the New Guinea campaign (ニューギニア戦没者の碑, Nyuginia senbotsusya no hi), It commemorates 130,000 Japanese killed in action and 50,000 residents killed in the war. It was constructed by the Japanese government with the cooperation of Papua New Guinea in September 1980.[13]
  • Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago: Cenotaph of Japanese killed in action in South Pacific Ocean (南太平洋戦没者の碑, Minami taiheiyo senbotsusha no hi), 200,000 killed in action at the Battle of Rabaul. It was constructed by the Japanese government and the Comrades Association in Arms (戦友会, Senyukai) in September 1980.[13]

Marshall Islands

  • Majuro: Cenotaph for war casualties in the Pacific Ocean (東太平洋戦没者の碑, Higasi taiheiyou senbotsusha no hi). It was constructed by the Japanese government with the cooperation of the government of Republic of the Marshall Islands in March 1984.[13][27]

New Caledonia

Palau

  • Peleliu: Cenotaph for war casualties in the West Pacific during the war (西太平洋戦没者の碑, Nishi taiheiyou senbutusya no hi), built in March 1985.[30]

Saipan

  • Banzai Cliff: Cenotaph for war casualties in the Central Pacific (中部太平洋戦没者の碑, Cyubu taiheiyou senbutusya no hi), built in March 1974.[31]

Solomon

  • Guadalcanal: Solomon Peace Commemorative Park, Cenotaph for war casualties in the Solomon Islands (ソロモン諸島方面戦没者慰霊碑, Soromon houmen senbutsusha ireihi) built in 1998.[32]

Canada

Dominican Republic

United States

Bolivia

Brazil

Peru

Malta

Russia (Europe region)

United Kingdom

  • Wales: Cenotaph of the Hirano-maru that was shipwrecked by U-boat on December 5, 1918. The wooden cenotaph was renewed with stone cenotaph on its 100th anniversary on October 4, 2018.[33]

See also

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