Japanese American community in Colma

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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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Japanese Cemetery associatedWith Japanese American community in Colma
subject surface form: Japanese Cemetery (Colma, California)