About the Project
Japanese Graves in the Hong Kong Cemetery
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 non-Japanese readers may not be familiar.
Hongkong Japanese Club Cemetery Preservation Committee
| IWAMI Takeo (Chair) | NAKANO Yoshiko |
| EBIHARA Tsuyoshi | SUGIMURA Tomoko |
| KAWAI Kosaku | TODA Jun |
| KIDO Takafumi | YAGYU Masakazu |
| MIZUKAMI Shunichiro |
| Project Leader | NAKANO Yoshiko (The University of Hong Kong) |
| English Writer | Georgina CHALLEN |
| Japanese Writer | SUGIMURA Tomoko (The Hongkong Japanese Club) |
| Photographer | KUME Miyuki |
| Web Designer | KIMURA Chizuru |
Acknowledgements
Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Cemeteries & Crematoria Office
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Archives
Government Records Service, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The Births and Deaths General Register Office
Note
Please note that this is a non-profit, educational website, hosted by the Hongkong Japanese Club. While we have made every attempt to attribute the source of the images used on the website, we accept that there may be omissions. We welcome amendments or addi- tions and these can be sent to:
December 2021