Tawau Japanese War Memorial
タワウ戦争記念館 Tugu Peringatan Perang Jepun Tawau | |
 The memorial site | |
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| 4°16′01″N 117°52′41″E / 4.26694°N 117.87806°E | |
| Location | Tawau |
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| Dedicated to | Japanese residents in Tawau |
Tawau Japanese War Memorial (Japanese: タワウ戦争記念館; Malay: Tugu Peringatan Perang Jepun Tawau) is a former Japanese cemetery in Tawau in the Malaysian state of Sabah which now been transformed into a memorial.
History
After the
The growing number of Japanese caused the cemetery to be built before the Second World War, and it was used by the Japanese community as a burial site. The vast majority of the people buried here died before the Second World War.[3]
Location
This site is located on the road of Tanjung Batu Street, west of Tawau Golf Course. The site is fenced on three sides. Only a few relics recall its original function as a cemetery. One of the graves listed five Japanese names, such as Sadatoshi Ohta, Ryoichi Muromoto, Isao Ohtomo, Koji Matsuo, and Takeshi Kusumoto.
On the back of one of the monuments built after the Second World War, several rows of Japanese characters can be seen, whose translation is as follows:
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MOURNING THE DECEASED Emperor Shōwa on 25 May.
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References
- ^ a b "History of Tawau". e-tawau. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ Goodlet, Page 39/41
- ^ "Japanese war cemetery and monument in Tawau". e-tawau. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
Further reading
- Sunami, Sōichirō (2015). "アジアにおける日本人墓標の諸相 --その記録と研究史--" [Aspects of Japanese Headstones on the Asian Continent: Records and Research History] (PDF). The Zinbun Gakuhō: Journal of Humanities (in Japanese). Research Information Repository.
Literature
- Ken Goodlet: Tawau - The Making of a Tropical Community, Opus Publications, 2010 ISBN 978-983-3987-38-2
External links
Media related to Tugu Peringatan Perang Jepun Tawau at Wikimedia Commons
