Sandakan Japanese Cemetery
Sandakan, Malaysia · built 1890
Sandakan Japanese Cemetery (Malay: Tanah Perkuburan Jepun Sandakan) is an old graveyard in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Located on a hill about 2 kilometres from the town's central business district, it is a cemetery where the remains are buried of many Japanese female prostitutes called Karayuki-san from poverty-stricken agricultural prefectures in Japan who were sold into slavery at a very young age years before World War II which also include recent comfort women during the war. It is part of the Sandakan Heritage Trail.
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