0:00 - Introduction, family background, and childhood

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Keywords: aircraft maintenance; dairy farms; Hawaii; Honolulu; Japanese language school; Kumamoto; Molokai; technical school

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4:53 - Thoughts about Japanese ancestry

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Keywords: Americans of Japanese Ancestry; Hawaiian identity; Japan

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6:03 - Growing up - Schooling and working

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Keywords: carpentry; employments; Flash Gordon; grocery store; movies

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7:50 - Attack on Pearl Harbor - Directed as civilian to guard power plants

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Keywords: Camp Shelby; civilians; guarding installations; Mainland; Nisei soldiers; radio; rifle; volunteers

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12:49 - Mainland: Race discrimination from Whites against Black Americans and Japanese Americans

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Keywords: "Whites Only"; African Americans; altercations; prejudices; racial discrimination; segregation

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14:48 - Preparing for combat at Camp Shelby

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Keywords: basic training; combat; conditioning; fear; front line; hiking

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16:12 - Activities during leave from Camp Shelby

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Keywords: Chicago; dancing; Hattiesburg; New York; United Service Organizations (USO

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18:08 - Leaving Molokai for the Mainland

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Keywords: English language; Issei parents; letter writing; mother

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19:10 - Feelings about the entry into war with Japan

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Keywords: incarceration camps; Issei parents; United States citizens

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20:50 - Training at Camp Shelby

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Keywords: baseball; boxing; combat training; golf; heat; hiking; insects; M1; maneuvers; Thompson submachine gun "Tommy Gun"

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25:22 - Getting along with Mainland Japanese Americans

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Keywords: "katonk"; friendship; Japanese American soldiers

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