In 2020, the Hongkong Japanese Club’s Cemetery Preservation Committee, which was established in 2000, initiated a project to document selected graves in the Hong Kong Cemetery. Eight individual graves and one major monument dedicated to the victims of the 1918 Happy Valley Racecourse fire were selected. Through these stories, the project aims to shed light on the early Japanese community in Hong Kong. Bilingual readers will notice a difference between the Japanese and English versions of the texts. This is to reflect slightly diverging approaches in the use of references and other primary materials, as well as a need to provide explanations of various practices and social structures with which nonJapanese readers may not be familiar.