POWs, airmen or military personnel are not the only people buried at Cowra Japanese War Cemetery. Civilian internees who died on Australian soil during the Pacific War are also buried in Cowra.
Cowra celebrates Japan: report from the 2019 Festival of International Understanding
The annual Cowra Festival of International Understanding held between March 15th - 17th, 2019 celebrated Japan as its guest nation. Japan was the first official guest nation in 1966, and is the only country in the world to be the guest twice.
Recording the voices of dead people
Cowra Voices finishes recording the voices of the people buried in the Japanese War Cemetery