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Keywords: 6th Infantry Division; China; Guadalcanal; immigrants; immigration; Issei parents; Japan; Japanese military; judo; kendo; Kumamoto; Kyushu Island; martial arts; New Guinea; relatives

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Keywords: boarding house; farmers; father; Hawaii; Honolulu; immigrants; immigration; Issei parents; J-Town; Japan Town; Mainland; migration; railway; Russo-Japan War; Sacramento; San Francisco; San Jose; Santa Clara; sharecroppers; sugar cane; sugar cane field; unemployment

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Keywords: boarding house; contract labor; farming; father; immigrant laborers; mother; orchard; Santa Clara; siblings; sugar beets

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Keywords: American citizenship; farm; farming; First Generation; Issei; Japan; Japanese American community; Japanese American society; Japanese Americans; kinship; Kumamoto; laborers; naturalization; prefecture; San Jose; sharecropping; village

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Keywords: children; familial obligations; family; farmers; immigrant society; Issei immigrants; Issei parents; Japanese American community; Japanese Americans; Nisei; obligations; poor; pride; siblings; traditions

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Keywords: discipline; eldest son; farm; farming; farmland; father; Great Depression; Issei; Issei parents; Japan; Japanese language; Kumamoto; middle school; moral ethics; Nisei; Pearl Harbor; responsibilities; San Jose; tradition

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Keywords: Buddhist minister; Japan; Japanese Americans; Japanese culture; Japanese language; Kendo; Kumamoto; Manchuria; middle school; North China; public school; ROTC; San Jose; teacher

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Keywords: education; independence; Japan; Japanese American community; Japanese culture; Japanese heritage; Japanese society; loyalty; middle school; moral ethics; obligations

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Keywords: basic training; Emperor of Japan; field officer; Japanese Army; Japanese citizenship; Japanese military; Japanese soldiers; Japanese students; middle school; militarism; North China; Psalm 23; religion; ROTC; samurai sword; wartime; West Point

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Keywords: Allied Translator and Interpreter Section; ATIS; Atsugi Airbase; China; classmate; Emperor of Japan; General MacArthur; interpreter; Japanese Americans; Japanese students; K ration; Manila; middle school; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; pre-World War II; translation; Yokohama

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