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| | Aoyama, Tokyo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Aoyama is also the location of Japan's first municipal cemetery, Aoyama Reien, which was opened in 1872. |
 | | Many noted foreigners are buried in the small foreign section of the cemetery, which is currently (2005) at risk of being cleared to make a park. |
 | | Famous non-Japanese buried at Aoyama Reien include the British minister plenipotentiary Hugh Fraser who died in the post in 1894, Captain Francis Brinkley, Guido Verbeck, Henry Spencer Palmer, Edoardo Chiossone, Joseph Heco, Julius Scriba and several others. |
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