0:43 - Family background and parental influence/ Christianity and religion
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3:29 - Japanese identity and values growing up
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6:34 - Education and academic history/ Commuting and working through school years
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Keywords: baseball; bicycle; businesses; commute; education; elementary school; high school; Honolulu; independent area; Issei; Japanese; Manoa; middle school; Nisei; parents; philosophy; plantation work; public school; school; school boy; sociology professor; sports; translation; tuition; tutor; university; values; Waipahu
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10:14 - Influential teacher, Hilo Hattie/ Japanese school education
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13:20 - Translation work for Dr. Lin at University of Hawaii/ Extracurricular activities
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Keywords: customs; drama; extracurriculars; folkways; graduation; isolation; Japanese; Japanese community; Japanese language; Kona; mandolin; marriage; mimeograph; mores; music; newspaper; OLS; Oriental Literature Society; part-time jobs; play; Professor Lin; sociology; traditions; translation; university; University of Hawaii
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16:59 - Finding a job in insurance/ Racial barriers in job search
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Keywords: 1941; active duty; American Mutual; Big 5; brokerage; career; graduation; insurance; Japanese; job search; John Hancock Insurance; National Mortgage; Nisei; plantation; racial discrimination; respect; retirement policies; salary; second draft; work
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22:01 - Basic training at Schoffield
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24:35 - Recollection of the Pearl Harbor attack/ Moment of trust
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Keywords: airplane identification; American; battalion; bombing; dive bomber; fear; field codes; fixed landing gear; intelligence corporal; Japan; Japanese; kanko; officer; Pearl Harbor; planes; practice; rising sun; safe; Schoffield; secret; Sunday; trust; United States; war; Wheeler Field
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27:23 - Distrust of Japanese among certain officers
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29:19 - Thoughts during the Pearl Harbor attack
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30:54 - John Iso and Kawahara's Excellence Award/ Teaching and forming translation teams
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33:44 - Post- Pearl Harbor reactions/ Kaneohe Ranch and tension
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Keywords: 298th National Guard; cow; cows; December 7; flood; Hawaii; headquarters; Japanese; Kaneohe Ranch; Nisei soldiers; officers; paratroopers; Pearl Harbor attack; racial diversity; rain; relationship; rumor; Schoffield; soldiers; surveillance; tension; trigger happy; uprising
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38:31 - Tension and distrust within the military/ Segregation of Nisei soldiers
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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; 298th; 298th infantry; 4151: racial segregation; battalion officer; Buddha head; clerk; college graduates; Collins; colonel; commanders; distrust; Hawaii; higher education; infantry; inspection; Japanese soldier; Japanese-Americans; Japs; locals; Lovell; National Guard; Nisei soldiers; officer; oversized battalion; racial prejudice; reconnoiter; regiment; respect; rumor; submarine; support; suspicion; translation; trust
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44:20 - Transforming a water basin into a bath tub
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46:04 - Parents' reactions to draft and war
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48:31 - Rumors of disarming Nisei soldiers/ Learning of orders to fight in the European Theater
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50:47 - Battle of Midway as a turning point
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53:45 - Morale of Hawaiian Nisei soldiers to being sent to the 100th
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59:07 - Traveling from San Francisco to Wisconsin
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62:07 - Training, food, work, and life at Camp McCoy/Recruitment for MIS
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Keywords: 442nd; buck sergeant; buildings; Camp McCoy; communications; conversation; detail; division; education; English; English class; fishing; grading scale; guard duty; Hawaii; headquarters; interview; interviews; isolation; Japanese; kibeis; kitchen; KP; language school; message center chief; Minnesota; MIS; morning clerk; option; optional; permanent quarters; platoon; potatoes; promotion; qualified; radio; reading; recruit; recruiters; rice pudding; September; snow; summer; teamwork; telegraph; tents; test; training; translators; trout; voluntary; volunteer; weather; Wisconsin
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70:10 - MIS Language School at Camp Savage/ Photo album of classmates
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Keywords: album; calligraphy; Camp Savage; class; classmates; documents; Frank Hachia; Hawaii; Japan; Japanese to English; kyucho; language school; letters; military; non-commissioned; officers; photos; sergeant; teacher; top section; translation; tribute; University of Hawaii
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74:47 - Section 1 MIS training and translation/ Enemy strategy and tactics
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Keywords: applied tactics; captured; defense; German soldiers; interrogation tactics; Japanese military books; kindness; MIA; military regulations; MIS; missing in action; offense; POW’s; prisoners; Section one; strategic withdrawal; training; translation
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78:10 - MIS recruiting trip to Hawaii
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82:10 - Interrogating at Honouliuli Prison Camp/ Truk Island's Japanese army strength/ Hawaiian civilians at Honouliuli
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Keywords: 1944; attack; cancel; civilians; Colonel Fielder; General rank; Guadalcanal; Honouliuli; interrogation; interrogation camp; invasion; Japan; Japanese school teacher; Korean battalion boys; Lieutenant General Watanabe; loyalty; military strength; obligation; officer Schafter; Okinawa; Pacific campaign; Pohnpei; Ponape; POW camp; principal; prisoners; release; Saipan; Tarawa; Truk Island; Ushijima; wife; Yamamoto sensei
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87:52 - Teaching the First Army officers about Japan and the Pacific Campaign/ Helping to set up the civilian government in Japan
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Keywords: 1945; active duty; auto battle; Camp Richie; Captain; civil servants; civilian government; classes; colonel; combat record; Europe; Fort Balin; Four star General; graduate; Hawaii; Japanese; Japanese units; language tested; Maryland; OCS; Okinawa; Pacific Theater; release; second lieutenant; study; tactics; TDY; top secret; VE Day; war; Washington DC
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