The state-designated historic site in the Ogikubo 2-chome district of Tokyo’s Suginami Ward goes by the name of Tekigaiso. No attention to detail was spared. The dwelling looks just as it did ...

Since she was little, her mother told her about how her great-grandfather was a Jew who had survived the holocaust.

Masahisa Takemi, 50, is the adviser of the track and field club at the Tokyo Metropolitan Chuo School for the Deaf in Tokyo's Suginami Ward. Seeing one of his students' frustration at a meet would ...

Suginami Ward’s Nishiogikubo is a cosmopolitan community where past and present are reckoning with an uncertain future. Rising rents, road expansion and redevelopment may soon transform the area ...