Box 1

Consists of two volumes. Covers from the time when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during the mass removal from the West Coast and incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the time when being transferred to the Gila River camp and imprisoned in the camp. Vol. 1: 1941 December 7-1943 September 30; vol. 2: 1943 October 18-January 6, 1944.

A collection of his essays documenting his thoughts on various issues during his incarceration in the Gila River camp. It covers from January 1944 through August 7, 1945 when he left the Gila River camp.

A collection of his essays on a variety of subjects written from January 1945 through January 1946, including the time after he returned from the Gila River camp to Los Angeles, California.

Consists of two volumes. A chronicle of rumors and false information which were spread among the Japanese American community as well as the government propagandas which misled the society during the war. Vol. 1: May 17, 1944-May 31, 1945; vol. 2: June 1, 1945-November 30, 1945.

Japanese translations of two English announcements which were sent out from Tokyo, Japan. The announcements were presumably made by Captain Hideo Hiraide, the Imperial Japanese Navy, and address citizens in the U.S. sometime in January 1944. One of the incarcerees in the Tule Lake Segregation Center obtained them, and they were translated into Japanese. Itsuhei Takano copied them all out by hand.

Chronicles from the time when he was released from the incarceration camp though the postwar period. It details his trip from the Gila River camp, Arizona to Los Angeles, California, narrates what he observed and thought when he learned of the surrender of Imperial Japan, and documents the postwar lives of the Japanese American incarcerees in Los Angeles when WRA camps were closed.

A collection of issues from a newsletter, "Kyoei: Gira Co-op news," published in the Gira River camp. Itsuhei Takano collected these issues becasue they included his essays. The Japanese section only.