Should this be in the Dead Gaijins thread?
Yomiuri: Foreign graves in Aoyama to be saved
The Tokyo metropolitan government is to preserve the foreigners' graveyard in the municipal Aoyama Reien cemetery in Minato Ward, Tokyo...Following cemetery regulations, the government in October put up signs in front of 78 graves whose management fees had not been paid for more than five years, saying graves that were not paid for within one year would be recategorized as graves of unknown persons...The 78 graves include that of Arthur Lloyd, a British professor of Tokyo Imperial University who translated Konjiki Yasha "The Golden Demon," American Dr. D.B. Simmons, and Carl Flaig, a German who was general manager of the Imperial Hotel during the period. Graves that are not paid for are normally removed, but visitors to the graveyard who saw the signs asked the metropolitan government to preserve the graves. As a result, the government decided in principle to preserve them after evaluating their historical value