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is a neighborhood in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. , a shopping street for the older generation (the area is known as the " Harajuku of the old ladies") is located here. It lies at the crossing point of the JR Yamanote Line, and National Route 17.
Usage examples of "sugamo".
Some spent years in Sugamo never seeing more than an inch ahead when they were out of their cells.
Although he was half in the maw of Sugamo Prison, this new element had his attention.
I heard that all Americans except diplomats are being taken to Sugamo Prison.
Nicholai learned that Kishikawa-san had been delivered to the War Crimes Commission by the Soviets, who would be in charge of prosecuting his case, and that he was currently being held in Sugamo Prison.
Was it for his own peace of mind, then, that he was going to Sugamo Prison?
His first thought after leaving Sugamo Prison had been to appeal to Captain Thomas for help against the Russians, against this emotional blackmail of Colonel Gorbatov.
The Japanese administrators of Sugamo Prison were under the thrall of the Occupation, and they held Nicholai in close confinement because they were ordered to, despite the fact that he was an embarrassing exception to their rigid organizational pattern.
These were the first words of Basque he had learned, years ago in his cell in Sugamo Prison.
On December 24, 1948, the day after the seven defendants were hanged at Sugamo, all nineteen remaining suspects were released on grounds of insufficient evidence.
The treatment of inmates in Sugamo Prison provided the most blatant early example of this.
Female gymnasts in shorts smiled for the Sugamo audience and for the camera.
In July 1953, all of these prisoners were repatriated to Japan, where some went free while others were transferred to Sugamo Prison.