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Higashi-Chofu-machi, Yukigaya, and Minemachi—we explore the multi-layered “strata of history” lying beneath these upscale residential neighborhoods, experiencing firsthand everything from Kofun-period spiritual boundaries and the prayers of Sengoku-era warriors to a “glass castle” from the Taisho era.

In Tokyo’s Ōta Ward, a hill named Ikegami has spent seven hundred years absorbing governments that tried to suppress, control, and reshape it. Each attempt deepened the site rather than diminishing it. This is the story of how suppression became sanctity.

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On Tokyo’s quiet Magome plateau, Nobel laureate Kawabata wrote his earliest pages, Jōmon ancestors rest 3,000 years deep, and a Shinto earth spirit outlasts earthquakes and firebombs.

The “Sea-Land Transmigration Syndrome” in Omori-machi: an ontological analysis of Jomon, Edo and industrial memory under the asphalt of Tokyo.