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Segment Synopsis: Instead of waiting for a promotion, Ken decided to discharge from the army and go home to the states. After a while, he decided to go back to Japan for civilian service and work in translation.

Keywords: ATIS; civilian service; discharged; Tojo Trials; Tokyo; translation; translator

Subjects: Japan Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan

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Segment Synopsis: He describes his job as a translator during the Tojo Trials, as well as other war crime trials.

Keywords: bombings; civil service; documents; government officials; Japanese civilians; mahjong; Nisei; Tojo Trial; translation; War Crimes Trials; war criminals

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan

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Segment Synopsis: He describes working with Japanese civilians and the relationships he made with them.

Keywords: Japanese civilians; Nisei veterans; occupation; socialization; war crime trials

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II

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Segment Synopsis: One of the Japanese prisoners, whom he took to India at the end of the war, found him in Japan. He had came to him asking for money.

Keywords: Japanese POWs; Japanese soldier; prisoners of war

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II

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Segment Synopsis: He worked on many of the international war crime trials. One of the trials he worked on was the Admiral Toyoda trial, which regarded the mistreatment of American soldiers by the Japanese military. Ken went to the Philippines to try to find people to testify in the trial. He also mentions the General Yamashita trial.

Keywords: Admiral Toyoda; American soldiers; General Yamashita; International Military Tribunal for the Far East; lawyer; Philippines; prisoners of war; Tojo Trial; war crime trials

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Segment Synopsis: He describes his investigation work about a trial involving the Kyushu University, who was supposedly. After working the war crimes trials, he decided to work at the civil court in Japan.

Keywords: American soldiers; civil court; doctors; justice; Kyushu Imperial University; military; occupation; POW; prisoners of war; war crime trials

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan [Japan--Post-World War II--War crimes]

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Segment Synopsis: He talks about how tough it was being an English-Japanese interpreter during war crimes trials. During his time in Japan during the occupation, Ken describes what the sociopolitical atmosphere was like as a result of the influence of the United States.

Keywords: biological weapons; interpreter; investigation; New Constitution; Occupation of Japan; prisoner of war; prosecution; war crimes trials

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan

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Segment Synopsis: He talks about some of the civil court cases that he worked on as an interpreter.

Keywords: Allied Forces; Black Market; civil court; extortion; GI; interpreter; judge; Korean; lawyer; Occupied Japan; prostitution; tea house; Tokyo; Yakuza

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan

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Segment Synopsis: He talks about the Yakuza's influence in Japan during the Occupation, as well as the corruption that arose within the political/judicial system. He also talks about a civil court case where he "warned" a convicted GI to not come back to Japan or else he would have gotten arrested.

Keywords: American GI; Black Market; bribery; Civil Court; corruption; interpreter; Occupation Authority; Occupied Japan; US Military; Yakuza

Subjects: Japan--Post-World War II Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan

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Segment Synopsis: He discusses what he believed was the reason why the Nisei MIS linguists had an important role in occupied Japan. He believes that, in a situation like the occupation of Japan, it is important for "the conqueror" to know about the native people and culture of the country that is being occupied.

Keywords: General MacArthur; Kibei; linguist; Military Intelligence Service; Nisei soldiers; occupation of Japan

Subjects: Identity and values--Kibei Military service--Postwar Occupation of Japan World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service