Kano's father was
Viscount Kano (), governor of
Kagoshima Prefecture and a member of the
National Diet. As a second son, he chose a career different from his father, studying agriculture at the
Imperial University in Tokyo, graduating in 1916. Kano married a woman named Ai Nagai in 1919; the couple bought a farm near
Litchfield, Nebraska and had two children. Like many other Japanese immigrants in the area, Kano farmed
sugar beets. Kano became active in the Japanese Americanization Society and served as an
interpreter and English teacher for immigrants. Government officials considered him a threat to national security because of his family ties to the Japanese government and his position as a leader in the Japanese immigrant community. They sent him to an internment camp, separating him from his family. He retired in 1957 and died in
Fort Collins, Colorado in 1988, at the age of 99. ==Legacy==