The Foreigners' Cemetery, Yamate Bluff, Yokohama, Japan
In the years leading up to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Europeans and Americans were allowed to live in the small port of Yokohama where they established trade links between their home countries and Japan. Many , such as Mr William Aspinall, a Liverpool tea trader who set up the Cornes Company with Frederick Cornes of Macclesfield, Cheshire, are buried at this cemetery on the Yamate Bluff, a hill overlooking the city.
The Foreigners' Cemetery, Yamate Bluff, Yokohama, Japan
In the years leading up to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Europeans and Americans were allowed to live in the small port of Yokohama where they established trade links between their home countries and Japan. Many , such as Mr William Aspinall, a Liverpool tea trader who set up the Cornes Company with Frederick Cornes of Macclesfield, Cheshire, are buried at this cemetery on the Yamate Bluff, a hill overlooking the city.