Staff writer

YOKOHAMA -- Most of the time, the mosquitoes and other insects have it all to themselves. Occasionally they welcome a few human visitors who brave the cemetery's uninviting gates, but few know of and even fewer visit this little foreign burial ground in Yokohama.

Welcome to Yokohama Negishi Gaikokujin Bochi, also known as the Negishi Foreign Cemetery. Only a few hundred meters from Yokohama's Yamate Station on the JR Keihin Tohoku Line, its obscure location and ambiguous past have helped keep it out of the spotlight.