Japanese American community in Colma

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Japanese American community ethnic community

The Japanese American community in Colma is a historically rooted group whose presence is closely tied to the town’s role as a burial place for San Francisco’s Japanese Americans, centered around the Japanese Cemetery and related cultural and memorial traditions.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese American community ⓘ ethnic community ⓘ
associatedWith	Japanese American organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
associatedWithActivity	ancestor veneration ⓘ memorial traditions ⓘ visitation of graves ⓘ
associatedWithPlace	Japanese Cemetery section of Colma cemeteries NERFINISHED ⓘ
commemorates	Japanese American ancestors buried in Colma ⓘ Japanese Americans who died in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culturalFocus	commemoration of deceased Japanese Americans ⓘ maintenance of Japanese American burial sites ⓘ
culturalSignificance	symbolic center of Japanese American ancestral ties in the Bay Area ⓘ
demographicCharacteristic	primarily descendants of Japanese immigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
developedDueTo	Colma’s role as burial place for San Francisco’s Japanese Americans ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Japanese Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCentralInstitution	Japanese Cemetery in Colma NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCommunityType	diaspora community ⓘ heritage community ⓘ
hasCulturalPractice	annual cemetery visits ⓘ cleaning and tending of family grave plots ⓘ placement of offerings at graves ⓘ
hasHeritageType	Japanese American heritage ⓘ
hasHistoricalRoot	early 20th-century Japanese immigration to San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
hasReligiousTradition	Buddhist memorial practices ⓘ Shinto-influenced memorial practices ⓘ
hasSpatialFocus	cemetery grounds rather than residential concentration in Colma ⓘ
heritageStatus	historically rooted community ⓘ
historicalFunction	regional burial center for Japanese Americans from San Francisco ⓘ
historicallyLinkedTo	Japanese Cemetery in Colma NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Japanese American community ⓘ burial practices of Japanese Americans in San Francisco ⓘ
languageUsed	English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ
linkedToCity	San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ
linkedToEvent	Japanese American internment during World War II ⓘ
locatedIn	Colma, California NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ San Mateo County, California ⓘ
memoryCulture	collective remembrance of Japanese American history in San Francisco and Colma ⓘ
observes	Japanese-style grave visitation days ⓘ memorial days for war dead and ancestors ⓘ
partOf	Japanese American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
relatedTo	Japanese Cemetery in Colma NERFINISHED ⓘ other ethnic cemeteries in Colma ⓘ
socialRole	guardian of Japanese American burial heritage in Colma ⓘ maintainer of Japanese American memorial customs in Colma ⓘ

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

Japanese Cemetery → associatedWith → Japanese American community in Colma ⓘ

subject surface form: Japanese Cemetery (Colma, California)