0:00 - Father's educational background / Buying and owning property

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Keywords: American citizen; brother; concentration camp; education; eldest son; father; first generation; immigrant; Issei; Japan; Japanese culture; Japanese language; Japanese values; landownership; Los Angeles; Orientals; property; sharecropper; teacher's assistant; United States Army; values; veteran

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6:36 - Father taught never to bring shame to Japanese heritage

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Keywords: American of Japanese ancestry; artillery; brother; France; Japanese cultural values; Japanese heritage; military service; mortar; overseas; volunteer; volunteer for service; World War I; World War II

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9:30 - Little correspondence with family during wartime

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Keywords: correspondence; family; father; front lines; letters; mother; sister; wartime

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10:28 - Father brought Mother to United States from Japan / Unfair treatment towards peoples of Japanese ancestry during wartime

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Keywords: Adolf Hitler; American citizenship; barbed wire fence; Caucasians; concentration camps; family; father; illegal immigration; immigration; Issei parents; Japanese Americans; Mexico; mother; prejudice; World War I; World War I veteran

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12:47 - Mother taught him Japanese cultural values / Issei generation worked hard to make a living in America

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Keywords: American; farming; farms; father; first generation; German; Issei; Japanese ancestry; Japanese culture; Japanese values; lettuce; mother; Salinas; topping sugar beets; values; World War I; World War I veteran

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19:03 - Childhood -- Attending Japanese language school / Prejudice towards Issei gaining American citizenship

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Keywords: American citizens; Germany; grammar school; Japanese Americans; Japanese culture; Japanese heritage; Japanese language school; prejudice; virtues

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20:49 - Pass revoked at Camp Shelby

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Camp Shelby; company; First Sergeant; furlough; hospital; MP; overseas; pass; pass book; war experience

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