Kuroki is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Sasman No. 336. It takes its name from the Japanese general Kuroki Tamemoto, and its story is tied to the Russo-Japanese War.
The village was founded after several Japanese victories in that war. Britain was allied with Japan, and Canada, as a dominion in the British Empire, also had positive relations with Japan, even sending a military attaché, Herbert Cyril Thacker, to assist the Japanese. Along the CN line, three Saskatchewan towns (Togo, Kuroki and Mikado), a regional park (Oyama) and a CN siding (Fukushiama) were named in honour of Japanese achievements in the war.
Today residents have created a Japanese Garden with rock gardens and a small pond, marked by a sign in Japanese reading "Kuroki Japanese Gardens." On the western edge of the community stand a small Ukrainian Orthodox church and St. Helena Cemetery. The grain elevator still stands in good condition, though it is now privately owned.
Written from Wikipedia’s article “Kuroki, Saskatchewan” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.