0:37 - Family history/ Moving to Okinawa at 6 years old
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4:06 - Growing up and attending school in Okinawa, Japan
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5:25 - Returning to Hawaii at 18/ Working in a bank
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7:48 - Drafted into service
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10:42 - Racial segregation of soldiers after Pearl Harbor
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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 298th; boat; Camp McCoy; car; Company A; company clerk; duty; English; Japanese-Americans; maintenance; Nisei soldiers; Pearl Harbor; Provisional Battalion; racial segregation; San Francisco; Schofield Barracks; training
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13:01 - Fighting with non-Japanese soldiers
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15:21 - Training at Camp McCoy/ Being recruited for MIS
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Keywords: Camp McCoy; Camp Savage; choice; education; English; fluency; infantry; interpreter; interview; Japan; Japanese; Kibei; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; orders; private; rank; records; recruiters; recruitment; refused; test; training; treatment; volunteers; weekend; Wisconsin
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18:47 - MIS training at Camp Savage
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21:34 - Being sent overseas with MIS team
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23:47 - Time at New Caledonia/ Translating documents on Guadalcanal
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Keywords: 37th division; August 1943; battle; battle information; deployment order; diaries; English; Guadalcanal; headquarters; intelligence; interrogation; Japan; Japanese; Japanese soldiers; MIS; New Caledonia; Ohio; prisoners; team; transcription; translation of documents
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27:23 - Interrogating prisoners at Bougainville/Routing a Japanese attack
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30:52 - Training new MIS inductees on Okinawan dialect prior to invasion
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Keywords: 1945; 298th; April 1; Bougainville; commander; draftees; family; geography; Guadalcanal; Hawaii; inductees; instructor; Japanese-Americans; mainlanders; medals; Nisei; Okinawa invasion; Okinawan dialect; Philippine invasion; records; Schofield; school; secret; soldiers; teacher; trainer; uncle; US G2; wife
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35:06 - Sorting prisoners by Japanese prefectres using dialects and last names
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Keywords: 1945; assistants; Bougainville; cigarettes; elementary school; family names; geography; Hawaii; instructor; interrogate; interview; Japanese invasion; Japanese soldiers; Okinawa; Okinawa battle; Okinawan dialect; POW’s; prisoners; return; segregate; Takijiro Higa
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41:40 - Nearing the end of the war/ Japanese prisoners' mentalities
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42:51 - Points for discharge/ Attack on Bougainville
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46:08 - Receiving the Soldier's Medal/ Career after being discharged
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49:47 - Wife and marriage
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51:31 - Hawaii draftees in the Okinawa invasion
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53:50 - Photos of war time and family
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61:28 - The first Hawaii Boys at MIS
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