0:00 - Reflection on childhood --- Discrimination in Japan

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Keywords: discrimination; grandparents; Hiroshima; immigrant; Japan; relatives; school

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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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Keywords: Brazil; competition; education; Hawaii; Hiroshima; house; Issei; mainland United States; money; Okayama; Okinawa; thrifty; Yamaguchi

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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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Keywords: "hakujin"butcher shop; anger; education; Issei; obedience; prisoners; psychology; rebelliousness; riot; Santa Anita; steak; stealing

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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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Keywords: Ben Sugeta; Calvin Kobata; Colonel Harry Fukuhara; concentration camp; Grant Hirabayashi; Hank Gosho; Harry Akune; Hawaii; Japanese education; Jerome; Kenny Yasui; Kibei; reunion; school; soldier; traitor; war

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19:48 - Military Intelligence Service classes at Camp Savage -- Friendship with fellow students

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Keywords: bathroom; Camp Savage; Chinese food; class; examination; flashlight; Fort Snelling; friendship; G.I.; Grant Hirabayashi; Hank Gosho; latrine; Minneapolis; Minnesota; money; presidio; service troop; study; Taro Yoshihashi

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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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