Qualla: Yokohama War Cemetery https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:40 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/7/3/yokohama-war-cemetery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Yokohama War Cemetery https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery Yokohama War Cemetery: Introduction https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery/ Photo credit Aw1805, CC BY-SA 4.0. A shrine within the grounds holds an urn containing the ashes of 335 soldiers, sailors, and airmen -- Commonwealth, American, and Dutch service members who died as prisoners of war in Japan and whose remains were cremated. The Yokohama Cremation Memorial stands inside the only cemetery in Japan maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, a quiet parkland in Hodogaya-ku where 1,555 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War are arranged in four national sections beneath mature trees. The cemetery sits next to the Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden, and the juxtaposition is almost too pointed: a place built for remembering the dead beside a place designed for the living young.

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/7/3/yokohama-war-cemetery-wp/xn73-yokohama-war-cemetery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yokohama War Cemetery: Names Gathered from Across the Pacific https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery/ Photo credit Aw1805, CC BY-SA 4.0. The cemetery was constructed after the Second World War by the Australian War Graves group, and it holds the remains of soldiers from across the former British Empire and beyond. The dead came mostly from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, and the United Kingdom, with additio...

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/7/3/yokohama-war-cemetery-wp/xn73-yokohama-war-cemetery-names-gathered-from-across-the-pacific.mp3 0:06 2 full Yokohama War Cemetery: After the Armistice, Another War https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery/ Photo credit Aw1805, CC BY-SA 4.0. A post-war section was added to the cemetery after 1953 to bury 171 soldiers who died fighting in the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. These graves sit alongside the earlier burials but represent a different conflict and a different era -- men who passed through Japan on their w...

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/7/3/yokohama-war-cemetery-wp/xn73-yokohama-war-cemetery-after-the-armistice-another-war.mp3 0:06 3 full Yokohama War Cemetery: A Crown's Presence https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery/ Photo credit Aw1805, CC BY-SA 4.0. The cemetery has drawn visits from three generations of the British Royal Family. Queen Elizabeth II came in May 1975, thirty years after the war ended, walking among the headstones of soldiers who had fought under her father's command. Princess Diana visited in February 1995, an...

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]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/x/n/7/3/yokohama-war-cemetery-wp/xn73-yokohama-war-cemetery-a-crowns-presence.mp3 0:06 4 full Yokohama War Cemetery: Quiet Ground in a Busy City https://qualla.com/yokohama-war-cemetery/ Photo credit Aw1805, CC BY-SA 4.0. Yokohama is Japan's second-largest city, a sprawling port metropolis of nearly four million people. The war cemetery occupies a small, carefully tended enclosure in Hodogaya-ku, a residential ward in the city's western hills. Mature trees surround the burial sections, creating a ...

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