Japanese Cemetery | Second World War 1939-1945, war cemetery

 Second World War 1939-1945, war cemetery

Approximate location based on photograph comparisons.

The bodies of Japanese soldiers were buried in this temporary cemetery. The sign once located by Little Falls Cemetery indicated there were 425 Americans and 261 Japanese buried here in the Massacre Valley cemeteries. For the Japanese burials, a small sign indicated how many unidentified bodies were buried in a particular row. In the Jim Fish Valley and Engineer Hill areas, bulldozers were used to push the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed in the battle for Attu into mass graves.

In 1946, the Japanese bodies were exhumed and reburied at Fort Richardson, Alaska. In July 1953, the 235 Japanese war dead buried at Fort Richardson were disinterred for proper cremation with appropriate Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies, under the supervision of the Japanese Embassy.

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