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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.

Cemetery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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