As well as the Yokohama War Cemetery in Hodogaya, there are several largely overgrown graves dedicated to German, French, other European and American nationals who died in the early 19th and early 20th century on Japanese soil.
Most are in the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery, more commonly known as the gaijin bochi, Japan's most famous graveyard for foreign nationals. Incidentally, it's worth bearing in mind that what is today seen as a graveyard exclusively for Westerners was originally the final resting place of Chinese laborers and local Japanese, whose graves were relocated in 1861 after the site reached capacity.
The earliest record of a foreign serviceman being buried on Japanese soil is that of a 24-year-old U.S. Marine who served aboard one of the famous Black Ships led by Commodore Matthew Perry. While Robert Williams is usually held up as the first non-Asian to be interred at gaijin bochi in Yamate, the location of the grave is today unknown.
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