Washington Heights (December 1956)

Washington Heights (housing for U.S. military officers) in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo - students studying at the American School in the Heights Washington Heights, housing for U.S. military officers, was built after the end of the war when the U.S. military seized land that had been the Yoyogi Training Camp of the former Japanese Army. The U.S. military spent 800 million yen to build the housing, mobilized a total of 2.16 million people during the one-year construction period, and completed about 800 units in September 1947. The site area was approximately 914,000 square meters. It is home to approximately 3,000 officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, and their families (including 1,200 children). Facilities within the Heights include a school, church, medical clinic, PX, theater, clubhouse, market, fire station, auto repair shop, and warehouse. Students studying at the American School in Washington Heights, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, December 1953, photo by Jiro Futamura. Mainichi Graph, January 13, 1954, p. 6, cut from Mainichi Graph, Japan / Tokyo / December 1953