0:00 - Difficulty communicating with Issei parents due language barrier

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Keywords: broken English; communication; father; Issei parents; Japanese language; language barrier; siblings

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1:05 - Attended Japanese language school -- Played sports, learned Japanese values, and took Judo lessons

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Keywords: "Momotaro"; basketball; discipline; don't shame the family; education; football; Japanese American community; Japanese culture; Japanese language; Japanese language school; Judo; pride; samurai; sensei; sports; studying

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6:10 - Relationship with his siblings -- Worked on the farm together

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Keywords: artist; brother; family; farm; farming; Great Depression; siblings; sister

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8:14 - Father took him and siblings to the movies

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Keywords: "chambara" films; childhood friends; community; El Monte; family; father; Japan; Japanese movies; Japanese school; movie theater; movies; samurai

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11:50 - Father taken by the FBI to Tujunga detention center

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Keywords: "evacuation"; 1941; barbed wire fence; detention center; FBI; high school; Japanese language school; Japanese school teacher; New Mexico; principal; Santa Fe; sentry; stockade; suspicious individual; Tujunga; World War II; World War Two; WWII

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16:17 - Received support from community after outbreak of war

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Keywords: church; curfew; high school; Japanese Americans; neighbors; Pearl Harbor; students; superintendent; war broke out; World War II; World War Two; WWII

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19:27 - Enactment of Executive Order 9066 -- Family lost everything

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Keywords: "evacuation"; concentration camp; December 7th; dog; Executive Order 9066; pets

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23:16 - Sent to Pomona Assembly Center / Acquired Locked Jaw as a kid -- Fortunate to have survived

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Keywords: children's hospital; doctor; farm; father; locked jaw; nurses; Pomona Assembly Center; Pomona Race Track

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