0:00 - Recalling working as a citation clerk and the qualifications for earning a Congressional Medal of Honor
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Keywords: 442nd; 5th; 7th; action; arm; Army; Biffontaine; Bruyères; case; citations; congressional; Congressional Medal of Honor; D.S.C.; Danny Inouye; discrimination; duty; France; G.I.; general; headquarters; heroic; Italy; Japanese; Lost Battalion; Mark Clark; Medal of Honor; Mike Masaoka; Munemori; outfit; soldiers; standard; trend
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2:56 - Recalling meeting his wife and why he felt she got accepted to the University of Nebraska
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Keywords: Ann Arbor; Arkansas; Army; background; California; camps; church; College of the Pacific; confined; discrimination; discriminatory; educators; enrollment; German; group; Hawaii; high school; history; Honolulu; Japanese Americans; July; law; married; Michigan; Minneapolis; Nebraska; Nora Maehara; paper; Pasadena; relocated; relocation; research; school; segregationist; states; Stockton; students; Union; university; University of Nebraska; wife; World War I; youth
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7:01 - Graduating Law School, marrying his wife, beginning his law practice, and his father's military experience
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Keywords: 1st; 442nd; Ann Arbor; Argonne Forest; automobiles; bar; businesses; Cadillac Fairview Hotel; cake; California; campaigns; cars; cases; channel; Chateau-Thierry; church; claims; clients; compensated; course; dad; damages; Detroit; discrimination; Europe; evacuation; exam; families; farms; father; files; France; freshman; friends; furnishings; furniture; honeymoon; Honolulu; inventory; January; Japan; Japanese; July; June; law; legislation; Los Angeles; married; May; Michigan; Normandy; office; party; Pasadena; practice; Presbyterian; professor; property-loss; records; route; sandwiches; Saturday; school; semester; service; ship; South Hampton; Spring; State Bar Exam; State Building; State Supreme Court; stores; street; Sunday; Thanksgiving; train; Verdun; veterans; war; wife; witnesses
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13:46 - Working as a U.S. Assistant Attorney and becoming the first "nisei" in the country appointed to that position
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Keywords: "nisei"; 442nd; ancestry; Asians; assistant; attorney; attorneys; background; career; chapter; country; decorated; dental; downtown; engineering; Ernest Tolin; Examiner; experience; France; government; Hawaii; history; Italy; J.A.C.L; Japanese; Japanese American; Jim; June; L.A.; L.A. Times; law; Los Angeles; medical; meeting; members; metropolitan; office; papers; pay; picture; practice; pre-war; private practice; prosecutor; publicity; radio; routine; science; Spring; training; U.S.; U.S. Attorney; U.S. Attorney's Office; unit; veteran; war; [John Isso]; [John Mino]
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20:18 - Starting a family with his wife and the adoption of his two daughters
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Keywords: "hapa"; "nisei"; "sensei"; accountant; adopt; adopted; adoption; agency; Anne; Asian; Board of Directors; boy; brother; Caucasian; child; children; Children's Home Society; family; food; G.I. Bill:claims; girl; grandkids; home; IBM; Jan; Japanese; Japanese Americans; job; machine; marriages; Michigan; non-profit; parent; Pasadena High School; Pasadena Junior College; Pasadena United School District; private; rice; school district; sister; students; Takuan; U.S. Attorney's Office; udon; V.A.
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25:26 - Recalling learning Japanese
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Keywords: "issei'; "koseki souhon"; "koseki touhon"; "romaji"; banks; birth certificate; Canada; clients; companies; congress; corporate; corporation; dad; death; dictionary; documents; expert; family; father; friends; government; green-card; immigration; Japan; Japanese; law; office; practice; probate; record; referrals; residency; shareholders; states; Steven; story; trusts; United States; wills
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