0:00 - Personal background and family history

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Keywords: "Tosh"; arranged marriage; employment; English; farmers; farming; Fukuoka; Hakata; higher education; Issei parents; Japan; mission school; Mushiroichi; picture brides; San Francisco; Seattle; Stanford University; village

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4:21 - Continued discussion about his parents / father's studies in school

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Keywords: "Merchant of Venice"; 1941; drama; employment; engineering; interpreter; Japanese students; naturalization; picture brides; Seattle; Stanford University; US Immigration Office; World War Two

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6:45 - Going to Japanese language school

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Keywords: "discipline"; English; Japanese; Japanese language school; Kanji; Nisei; parents; sister; speak Japanese; write Japanese

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8:53 - Father's employment for the Immigration Office

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Keywords: Airport Avenue; employment; English; father; immigrants; Immigration Office; interpreter; Issei; Japanese; passports; Seattle; Vancouver

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10:47 - Parental rolls/ Siblings-- professions,

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Keywords: "housewife"; discipline; employment; father; homemaker; household; mother; parents; siblings

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12:53 - Siblings/ Illness as a child

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Keywords: brother; grandparents; head swelling; illness; infection; Japan; pregnancy; sister; United States; wet nurse

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17:19 - Growing up in Seattle / describing the neighborhoods and ethnic makeup

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Keywords: 1932; Beacon Hill; Beacon Hill School; friendship; German; grammar school; Greek; Hakujin; Italian; Japanese; Japanese families; Joe; May 25th; neighborhood; neighbors; Nisei; sandlot baseball; younger brother

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21:43 - Close childhood friends / FBI detaining his father after Pearl Harbor

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Keywords: 1941; active in Japanese community; community organizations; employment; father; FBI; friendship; Hakujin; immigration detention centers; interrogated; Japanese Chamber of Commerce; luncheon; Nisei; parents; Paul; Pearl Harbor; poetry club; temporary detention centers

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24:15 - Continued discussion of Pearl Harbor, the FBI, and the search of his home

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Keywords: brother; church; FBI; home; Japanese attack; Japanese Methodist Church; library; Pearl Harbor; radio; ROTC; September 1941; service; television; thorough search

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27:58 - The search of their home and dealing with the aftermath

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Keywords: "fake uniform"; "mental block"; church; club meeting; confiscation; FBI; missing details; mother; nervous; questioned his mother; religion; ROTC uniform; speaking Japanese

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