0:00 - Pitied the captured Japanese soldiers for what they went through / Power of propaganda during wartime

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Keywords: comfort girls; Japanese military; Japanese soldiers; nature of war; Okinawa; Prisoners of War; propaganda; reality of war; suicide; wartime propaganda

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2:28 - Experience in Burma -- Interactions with the natives, Acquired Malaria, Visited the Ruby City

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; American army; Asians; Burma; Burmese people; disease; geography; Haole; jungle; leaches; Malaria; mosquitos; Native Hawaiians; natives; Ruby City; snake; villages

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5:25 - Assigned to the 10th Army Air Force / Lack of group solidarity within MIS teams

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 10th Army Air Force; 442nd Regimental Combat Team; artillery; closeness; company; infantry; jungle; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; Nisei; planes; platoon; radio communication; radio interception

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8:34 - OSS Detachment 101 attached Filipino tribesman as bodyguards for MIS Nisei soldiers

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Keywords: "Kachin"; bodyguards; Buddaheads; Burma; Filipino tribesman; Japanese soldiers; Nisei; OSS; OSS Detachment 101

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10:05 - Decided to return home rather than sent to Occupation of Japan

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Keywords: atomic bomb; brother; commission; family; homecoming; Japan; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; Occupation of Japan; sisters; war is over

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12:02 - Found out brother served in the Japanese Army during the war

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Keywords: brother; drafted; dual citizenship; expatriation; Japanese Army; Japanese citizenship; Japanese military; military service; Nisei; renunciation; Secret Police

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13:23 - Received Bachelor's Degree from Indiana Univeristy / First Japanese American to be admitted into Yale Law School

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Keywords: college; concentration camp; discrimination; Hawaii; Indiana University; internal security; Japanese Americans; law school; Nisei soldiers; Nisei veterans; security measures; universities; Yale

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17:26 - Post-war changes in Hawaii

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Keywords: "Big Five"; Alien Land Laws; anti-Japanese; Democratic Party; Hawaii; Japanese community; Japanese labor workers; labor movement; labor unions; loyalty; post-war; solidarity; sugar strike; World War II

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21:51 - Private practice in arbitration

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Keywords: "Big Five"; arbitrator; Attorney Morimoto; attorney office; career; employment; Hawaii; law firm; post-war; private practice

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23:39 - Met wife in Washington D.C. -- Have three children and four grandchildren / Working to preserve the Nisei veteran story

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; archives; attorney; children; daughter; family; grandchildren; Katonk; linguist; Mainland; military experience; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; National Archives; Nisei story; Nisei veterans; oral histories; personal experiences; preserve history; professional musician; teacher; Varsity Victory Volunteers; VVV; Washington D.C.; wife

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