0:00 - Reflection on childhood --- Discrimination in Japan
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1:29 - Grandfather's work as contract laborer in Hawaii -- Desire to come to America
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Keywords: contract laborer; correspondence; custom; family; fisherman; grandfather; Hawaii; Hiroshima; inheritance; intermarriage; Japan; Kumamoto; Kyshu; mainland United States; money; pineapple; pioneer; plantation; poor; relatives; Seattle; siblings; sugar cane; Terminal Island; villagers; Wakayama
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4:38 - Japanese working abroad
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6:07 - Working in the mess hall at the concentration camp
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Keywords: bachelors quarters; breakfast; carrots; coffee; concentration camp; distribution; family; fruit juice; grocery store; Jerome; job; liquor; lunch; mess hall; potatoes; raisins; ration; Santa Anita; store keeper; sugar; supper; tea; temporary detention center; vegetable department; volunteer
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8:33 - Living conditions at Santa Anita / Anger towards enemy alien classification
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Keywords: 4-C classification; Alameda County, CA; American citizen; attorney; attorney general; bachelor; Democrat; Earl Warren; enemy alien; governor; Great Depression; horse stall; laborers; living conditions; manure; National Recovery Administration (NRA); political party; politics; President Franklin Roosevelt; Republican; Santa Anita; social security; Supreme Court justice; temporary detention centers; urine; vote
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11:37 - Anger amongst incarcerees in concentration camps
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12:45 - Volunteering to join Army / Japanese language skills
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Keywords: camp; college degree; concentration camps; dialect; English language; escape; freedom; Fukuoka; high school; instructor; Japan; Japanese language; Kagoshima; Kibei; knowledge; Kumamoto; Kurume; machine gun; mainland United States; native tongue; Okinawa; recruiting officer; school; second-class citizen; Sendai; student; study; United States; United States Army; volunteer
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16:56 - Time at Jerome Concentration Camp / "Kibei" soldiers
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19:48 - Military Intelligence Service classes at Camp Savage -- Friendship with fellow students
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22:12 - Training at Camp Shelby / Relationship between 442nd, 100th, and Military Intelligence Service divisions
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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; basic training; Berkeley, California; Camp Savage; Camp Shelby; draft; Europe; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Military Intelligence Service (MIS); patch; school; Seattle; special company; Tad Hirota; team; Tom Ouye; volunteer; Walawbum
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24:55 - Knowledge of Japanese language / Tutoring soldiers in Japanese
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Keywords: answer; assignment; Camp Shelby; captain; college; dictionary; Hank Gosho; headline; high school; Japanese language; job; junior officer; karma; lieutenant; Los Angeles; newspaper; Nisei; officer; question; read; school; Sergeant; study; translate; tutor; typesetting; write
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