MUROMOTO Ryoichi
Born: 16 January 1917 – Died: 6 July 1942
Particulars:
Ryoichi was born in Iwakuni City in Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan. When the Pacific War broke out, he was working as a farmer in Tawao, North Borneo in the Dutch East Indies, now part of Malaysia. He was taken to South Australia and interned at the Loveday Internment Camp, where he died of tuberculosis aged 25. His grave is in the Japanese Cemetery, Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
–Mayu Kanamori
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Chie Muraoka
Artist/s Statement:
Dear Mr Muromoto Ryuichi, like me, you are from Yamaguchi Prefecture. You are now buried in the cemetery in Cowra. I imagine that none of your family and relatives in Yamaguchi Prefecture know that you are buried there. You died when you were only 25 years old. I leave you with photos of the canola fields in Cowra, near where you are buried, and of Motonosumi Shrine in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Artist Bio:
Chie Muraoka is a web developer and designer based in Sydney, Australia. She has been collaborating on not-for-profit, educational, and community based arts projects. She creates design strategies incorporating audio, visual, complex search-and-collate, and geo-locative functions to enable community storytelling and international student exchanges. Her web based projects include the ‘When You Call My Name Project’ website and the ‘Cowra Japanese War Cemetery Database’.