Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Susumu “Sus” Ito was a 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion veteran. Throughout the war, he carried his senninbari in his pocket. In this video, he revisits the one thousand stitch belt and tells the story behind it.

Learn more about Sus Ito: janm.org/sus-ito/sus

Credit line: Susumu Ito video interview, July 8, 2015, Japanese American National Museum

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This video is included as part of JANM’s Exploring America’s Concentration Camps website, an online resource for learning about the forced removal and confinement of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in American-style concentration camps during World War II: eacc.janm.org

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