Cowra Japanese War Cemetery

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cemetery military cemetery war cemetery

The Cowra Japanese War Cemetery is a burial ground in Cowra, New South Wales, dedicated to Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in Australia during World War II, notably those killed in the 1944 Cowra breakout.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Cowra Japanese War Cemetery canonical	5
Cowra War Cemetery	4
Japanese War Cemetery Cowra	1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cemetery ⓘ military cemetery ⓘ war cemetery ⓘ
continent	Australia ⓘ
coordinatedWith	Office of Australian War Graves ⓘ surface form: Australian War Graves Commission Cowra Shire ⓘ surface form: Cowra Shire Council
country	Australia ⓘ
dedicatedTo	Japanese civilians ⓘ Japanese internees ⓘ Japanese prisoners of war ⓘ Japanese soldiers ⓘ Japanese war dead ⓘ
designedBy	Yura Gyozo ⓘ
establishedDuring	post–World War II period ⓘ
eventCommemorated	Cowra breakout ⓘ World War II ⓘ
hasAccess	public ⓘ
hasFeature	Japanese-style landscaping ⓘ boundary fence ⓘ central memorial ⓘ commemorative plaques ⓘ entrance gate ⓘ landscaped gardens ⓘ lawn graves ⓘ memorial tablets with Japanese inscriptions ⓘ rows of uniform headstones ⓘ shrine-like structures ⓘ stone lanterns ⓘ
hasGraveOf	Japanese airmen killed in Australia ⓘ Japanese civilians who died in Australia during World War II ⓘ Japanese civilians who died in internment camps in Australia ⓘ Japanese nationals who died in Australia between 1941 and 1947 ⓘ Japanese naval personnel killed in Australia ⓘ Japanese prisoners killed in the Cowra breakout ⓘ Japanese prisoners who died in Australian POW camps ⓘ Japanese soldiers who died in Australia during World War II ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ
hasMemorialTo	Japanese war dead in Australia ⓘ victims of the Cowra breakout ⓘ
hasOpeningStatus	open year-round ⓘ
locatedIn	Australia ⓘ Cowra ⓘ New South Wales ⓘ
locatedNear	Cowra Prisoner of War Camp Site ⓘ surface form: Cowra Prisoner of War Camp Cowra Japanese War Cemetery self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cowra War Cemetery
locatedOn	Australian mainland ⓘ
maintainedBy	Australian authorities ⓘ Imperial War Graves Commission ⓘ surface form: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Government of Japan ⓘ
nearbyAttraction	Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre ⓘ Cowra Japanese War Cemetery self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cowra War Cemetery site of former Cowra POW camp ⓘ
numberOfBurials	522 ⓘ over 500 ⓘ
ownedBy	Government of Japan ⓘ
religiousAffiliation	non-denominational ⓘ
significance	only Japanese war cemetery in Australia ⓘ site of Japanese–Australian war remembrance ⓘ symbol of post-war reconciliation between Japan and Australia ⓘ
tourismType	heritage tourism site ⓘ war tourism site ⓘ
usedFor	Japanese–Australian reconciliation events ⓘ official memorial services ⓘ visits by Australian veterans ⓘ visits by Japanese delegations ⓘ war commemoration ceremonies ⓘ
yearEstablished	1964 ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cowra → hasCemetery → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ

World War II Cowra breakout → commemoratedBy → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cowra War Cemetery

Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre → relatedTo → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ

Cowra breakout → memorial → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese War Cemetery Cowra

Cowra Prisoner of War Camp Site → hasMemorial → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cowra War Cemetery

Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre → associatedWith → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ

Cowra Japanese War Cemetery → locatedNear → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cowra War Cemetery

Cowra Japanese War Cemetery → nearbyAttraction → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cowra War Cemetery

Cowra Shire → hasCemetery → Cowra Japanese War Cemetery ⓘ