(This scrapbook is stab-bound leather and board, with a black cover featuring gold-painted design. It documents Sano's work and life up to and including the forced removal of Japanese Americans to illegal detention centers in 1941 through 1943.)
(This scrapbook is bound with blue fabric on book board with stab binding. The fabric features white designs of one-person boats, temples, cityscapes, and windmills. It documents Sano's post-war activities in Japan, and also features family photos from his sister's funeral.)
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(Wooden sign reading "J.K. Sano (Chula Vista) AVE. K BRK. 22-1".)
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Two dog figurines woven out of burlap and other natural fibers by prisoners at the Santa Anita detention center.
Donor provided description: "These two 'doggies' were made by the internees of the 'Santa Anita Assembly Center,' the [detention center] on the grounds of the Santa Anita race track in California, 1942, for all of Japanese ancestry in certain areas of California.
"They were woven by internees (and paid $16/month) onto huge nets hung from the rafters of the racetrack grandstand."
(Contains Sano's entry permit to Sugamo and Omori prisons in his capacity as arbiter for the International War Tribunal for the Far East. Sano was there to interrogate the Japanese Military officials on trial in Tokyo. He brought with him paper currency, which was signed by Hideki Tojo, Kuniaki Koiso, Koichi Kido, and Okinori Kaya, among others. These are included in a small envelope with military currency in use in occupied Japan.)
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(Jewelry box containing a Wakamatsu Colony Centennial coin, and an engraved wooden box holding two Japanese coins.)
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(Two metal dishes picked up from Hiroshima by Joseph Kumao Sano in 1951. They are likely a rice dish and a sauce dish.)