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10 Cents Club Sugamo
| Issuer | Club Sugamo |
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| Year | 1945-1952 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground with black letterpress print throughout. The issuer name "CLUB" and "SUGAMO" appear in bold serif capitals across the upper field, flanking a central rectangular cartouche enclosing the numeral "10". The word "TEN" is set to the left and "CENTS" to the right of the cartouche in spaced serif capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | CLUB SUGAMO TEN 10 CENTS |
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Club Sugamo was the officers' club operating inside Sugamo Prison, Tokyo — the facility where Class A war crimes suspects were held during the Allied occupation and where several were executed following the International Military Tribunal for the Far East verdicts. This scrip circulated exclusively within that compound, issued for use by prison staff and personnel rather than by the Japanese inmates.
Occupation-era club and canteen tokens of this type were never intended to survive. Most were redeemed or discarded when the facility's function changed after the 1952 San Francisco Peace Treaty restored Japanese sovereignty and Sugamo was transferred back to Japanese authorities.