Washington Heights (December 1956)

Washington Heights (housing for U.S. military officers) in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, with a family enjoying dinner in the dining room of the club in the Heights. Washington Heights, housing for U.S. military officers, was built after the war, when the U.S. military seized land formerly used for the Yoyogi Training Camp of the former Japanese Army. The U.S. military spent 800 million yen for the construction, 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. Families enjoying dinner in the dining room of a club in Washington Heights, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, December 1953, photo by Jiro Futamura. Mainichi Graph, January 13, 1954, page 8, cut from page 9, Japan / Tokyo / Washington Heights, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, December 1953. Photographed by