The oldest known Japanese national recorded by name and buried outside Japan is the early explorer Yamada Nagamasa.
There is a cemetery for the Imperial Japanese Navy in Malta, multiple sites for POWs in Siberia, and many Pacific War sites, which include Japanese cemeteries, cenotaphs, and remains in the Nanpō Islands, the Philippines, New Guinea, and other Pacific Islands.
There have been multiple efforts by veteran organizations and the Japanese government to return remains to living relatives.
To resolve the lack of labor, the Mongolian government requested to transfer POWs in October and December 1945, and approximately 12,318 Japanese prisoners were forced to work, from which more than 1,600 have died.
Cemetery and burial place of Japanese who lived in the South Korea area before and after World War II.