Walk along Chuan Hoe Avenue, off Yio Chu Kang Road, and you may just stumble on 10,000 of the Japanese war dead.
They lie in a Japanese cemetery, right smack in the middle of a quiet residential area, surrounded by landed properties and a children's playground.
Unknown to many, the ashes of these 10,000 from World War II are buried alongside those of more than 1,000 of the pre-war community of Japanese here.
The sprawling cemetery along Chuan Hoe Avenue is the only concrete reminder of the pre-war Japanese community here.
Like the other Asian migrants, these Japanese had moved to the then British colony in search of a better life and to escape the grinding poverty of their homeland.