0:00 - Introduction; family background and childhood memories growing up in Kent, Washington

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Keywords: Alien land laws; farming; Hiroshima; siblings; Western Pacific

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4:37 - High school experience and first job as produce buyer during the Great Depression

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Keywords: economic hardship; farming; Japanese language; sports

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8:09 - Homelife growing up: religion practiced and languages spoken

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Keywords: Buddhism; Issei parents; Japanese language school

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9:27 - Discusses what he was doing right before and after December 7, 1941.

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Keywords: employment; Pearl Harbor; World War Two

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11:55 - Aftermath from Pearl Harbor

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Keywords: Executive Order 9066; interment camp; mixed marriage; prejudices

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15:43 - Discusses his experiences working

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Keywords: employment; incarceration camps; Minidoka; Puyallup; race discrimination; temporary detention centers

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21:21 - Reasons volunteering and how the Army treated Japanese-Americans

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Keywords: Japanese identity and values; loyalty; race discrimination; segregated unit

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24:33 - Discusses his experience traveling to Camp Shelby and his first time seeing racial segregation

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Keywords: African American; Colored; discrimination; racism

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