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Segment Synopsis: Talks about his decision to go to college in Kansas (Kansas State University), even though his mother wanted him to go to Japan for schooling (Buddhist seminary). Talks about a friend with dual citizenship who went to Japan and was drafted into the Japanese Army and was captured by the Chinese military.

Keywords: dual citizenship; Higher education; religion, Buddhism

Subjects: Education Education--Church-run schools Identity and values--Issei Identity and values--Japanese American identity Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Parents Japan--Education Japan--Military

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about working for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). He was sent to China to recruit Japanese prisoners of war (POWs), who were captured by the Chinese, for a new propaganda experiment - the Production of Black Propaganda. The intent was to have the POWs create propaganda to demoralize the Japanese citizens and soldiers to weaken the Japanese position in the war. Talks about his friends who happened to be in the POW camp he was recruiting from - they helped take part in the propaganda project.

Keywords: black propaganda; Chinese soldiers; Japanese citizens; Japanese soldiers; Merrill's Marauders (5307 Composite Unit, Provisional); Office of Strategic Services (OSS); prisoners of war (POWs); war

Subjects: Japan--During World War II World War II World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Office of Strategic Services World War II--Propaganda World War II--Propaganda--U.S. Government Propaganda

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Segment Synopsis: Discusses his father's reaction to his attending college. Discusses his father's role as head-of-the household and the value he placed on education as a Japanese cultural value.

Keywords: higher education; Issei parents

Subjects: Education Education--Higher education Identity and values Identity and values--Family

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Segment Synopsis: Upon moving to the mainland from Hawaii for school, he was oblivious to the threat of war between the United States and Japan. He had to get used to being one of the few "Orientals" in school. He experienced racial discrimination on the mainland, especially once the war started, being portrayed as the enemy, and even more so after the war ended.

Keywords: culture shock; Hawaii; higher education; mainland; Pearl Harbor; racism; theatre of war

Subjects: Education--Higher education Identity and values Identity and values--Japanese American identity Identity and values--Nisei Race and racism Race and racism--Discrimination Race and racism--Violence World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath

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Segment Synopsis: Discusses the effect of war on Japanese American students' enrollment in veterinarian school. During the war, students were recruited into the Veterinarian Corps.

Keywords: higher education; war

Subjects: Education Education--Higher education World War II--Military service

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Segment Synopsis: A friend's father was one of the first Japanese citizens to be sent to an incarceration camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor along with other Japanese community leaders who were deemed dangerous. Because of this, a friend resented his choice to volunteer to serve in the United States Army.

Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Budhism; Christianity; community leaders; discrimination; incarceration camp; Japanese language school; Military Intelligence Services (MIS)

Subjects: Education--Japanese language schools Japanese--Legal status, laws, etc.--California Race and racism Race and racism--Discrimination Religion and churches--Buddhism World War II--"Enemy Alien" Classification World War II--Mass Removal ("Evacuation")--Japanese American community responses World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Arrests, searches, and seizures

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Segment Synopsis: Discusses being accepted into college a few months before the Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941). He was intent on studying veterinarian medicine. He describes his college experience in Kansas City: his job, his dormitory and his classmates.

Keywords: higher education; Kansas; Pearl Harbor

Subjects: Education Education--Higher education Geographic communities--Kansas City, Missouri

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Segment Synopsis: He recalls what he was doing when he heard the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war. He had been in his room at school and had heard the news over his dorm mate's radio. He recalls his world changing from that point forward.

Keywords: enemy alien (law); Franklin Delano Roosevelt; higher education; Pearl Harbor; war

Subjects: Education Education--Higher education Race and racism Race and racism--Discrimination World War II--"Enemy Alien" Classification World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Personal Recollections

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Segment Synopsis: After hearing the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he tried to do whatever he could to join the army through his school programs. He got turned away by every one of them. His friends and classmates began to view him as just a "Jap". He decided to quit school due to the constant rejection because of his ancestry. Even the barbershops and restaurants in town turned him away.

Keywords: alien (law); discrimination; higher education; Pearl Harbor; racism

Subjects: Education Education--Higher education Japanese Americans--World War II Race and racism Race and racism--Discrimination World War II--"Enemy Alien" Classification World War II--Military service World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Personal Recollections World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Responses of non-Japanese Americans

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Segment Synopsis: He and his parents believed his duty was to the United States; he was recruited directly out of college into the Army and enlisted in the Military Intelligence Services (MIS).

Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); Camp Shelby; higher education; Issei parents; Japanese American; Katonk; Military Intelligence Service, (MIS); Pearl Harbor

Subjects: Identity and values--Japanese American identity Identity and values--Parents World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--100th Infantry Battalion World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service World War II--Military service--Recruiting and enlisting