Washington Heights (December 1956)

Washington Heights (housing for U.S. military officers) in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo - a room for minors in a club in the Heights The U.S. military confiscated the land that was formerly the Yoyogi Training Camp of the former Japanese Army after the war ended, and spent 800 million yen at the time to build the Washington Heights housing for U.S. military officers, A total of 2.16 million people were mobilized during the one-year construction period, and approximately 800 units were completed 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. Some of the clubs in Washington Heights have rooms for minors. Minors drinking cola and chatting with each other at Washington Heights in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, December 1953, photo by Jiro Futamura.