Reynold Muranaka oral history interview, part 1 of 5, November 8, 2009

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0:00 - Introduction- working in occupied Japan

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Keywords: Emperor; General MacArthur; interpreter

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3:00 - Receiving a gift from the Emperor

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Keywords: Japan; sensei; Tokyo

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5:51 - Working with the Japanese officials

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Keywords: interpreter; Japanese soldiers; repatriations

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8:44 - Working with the Japanese officials II

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Keywords: food banks; repatriation; translation

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11:41 - Free time in Japan

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Keywords: 158th Combat Team; music; Nikko; Tokyo Philharmonic

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14:38 - Japanese weapons

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Keywords: bamboo spears; samurai swords

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15:43 - The end of the war, visiting Hiroshima

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Keywords: atomic bomb; Hiroshima; Luzon

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18:39 - Visiting Hiroshima II- devastation

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Keywords: 2nd Lieutenant; atomic bomb; family

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21:52 - Visiting Hiroshima III- family

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Keywords: atomic bomb; letters; mother

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24:35 - The end of the war II

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Keywords: Emperors speech; Tokyo; Yokohama

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27:17 - Japan after the war

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Keywords: Air Force; military occupation; Tokyo; Utsunomiya; Yokohama

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30:23 - Japan after the war II

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Keywords: American soldiers; military occupation; post-war

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31:40 - Learning Japanese

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); Camp Savage; interrogate; Japanese language school; Military Intelligence Service Language School; Minnesota; translate

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34:48 - Learning Japanese II- culture, Japanese in Honolulu

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Keywords: captured documents; sugar plantation; translation

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37:38 - Cultural differences being a Japanese American

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Keywords: Haole; Nisei

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40:28 - Recall to the Army

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Keywords: Japanese language school; Nisei soldiers; Presidio Monterey; Prisoners of War; Russia; Tokyo

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43:19 - Recall to the Army II

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Keywords: Buddhist temple; interrogations; New York City; Prisoners of War

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46:13 - Recruiting for the Army, interrogation work

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Keywords: Major; Seabrook, New Jersey; slave labor

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48:57 - Interrogation work II- collecting information

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Keywords: Prisoners of War; Russia; Trans-Siberian Railroad

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51:56 - Discussing communism

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Keywords: Nikita Khruschev; Russia

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54:29 - Ending up at Fort Lewis

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Keywords: 4th Infantry Division; Intelligence Office; Japan; Russia; Washington

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