0:00 - Introduction

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Keywords: Army; baptism; legal name; legal records; New York City; nickname

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1:10 - Father's background in Japan / Passage to the United States

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Keywords: dye merchants; father; grandfather; Hokkaido; Japan; lumber business; Nagaoka; natural disaster; Niigata; prefecture; produce merchant; San Francisco; United States

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2:50 - Father settles in New York City -- work as a cook for J. Walter Thompson

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Keywords: advertising; bakery; Boston; cook; cookbook; creme puffs; dessert; employment; J. Walter Thompson; meat; menu; New York City; paint; potatoes; supper

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5:19 - Father starts a family in New York and profession as an importer and exporter

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Keywords: bachelor; butler; California; food business; import; Japanese food; Japanese goods; management; market; marriage; Newtown; Pennsylvania; restaurant; smokestacks; Vancouver; World War I

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8:45 - Decline of the import/export business during World War I

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Keywords: banks; boom; Ellis Island; export; feed; food; import; Japan; New York City; repatriation; restaurant; soldiers; sukiyaki; surname; tempura; war; workers

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10:21 - Father's Japanese restaurant

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Keywords: Americans; beef; diet; fry; Japanese; raw fish; shrimp; sukiyaki; sushi; tempura

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11:59 - Clientele of father's restaurant

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Keywords: Brooklyn; catering; clientele; Donburi; group dining; Japanese; Japanese population; Nassau County; New Jersey; New York City; Queens; sashimi; suburban; sukiyaki; tourism; Westchester

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14:09 - Types of food eaten in the household growing up

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; breakfast; cabbage; Captain Crawley; corned beef; E Company; food; Hawaii; Irish stew; lunch; noodles; raw fish; rice; roast beef; sandwiches; sashimi; soba; squid; Sunday; supper; Thompson Company; tomatoes

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16:46 - Variety of foods and grocers found in the neighborhood

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Keywords: 58th Street; 59th Street; 86th Street; Austrian; beef filet; bratwurst; British Isles; cabbage; corned beef; cured meats; Czechoslovakian; delicatessen; German; grocer; Hungarian; immigrants; Irish; Italian; knockwurst; New York; pasta; Queens; restaurant; sukiyaki; Thompson Company

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19:07 - Exposure to different types of ethnic food

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Keywords: 59th Street; Chinatown; classmates; dill pickles; eastside; ethnic foods; foods; grocery business; Italian; Japanese food; lox; Murray Hill; neighborhood; Osaka; pastrami; pickles; potatoes; Russian Jews; salt salmon; school; takuan; Tokyo; Yakamein

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23:39 - Neighborhood / Childhood playmates

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Keywords: 58th Street; 59th Street; Central Park; children; clocks; corner; dentist; doorman; family; Finnish; Frenchman; friends; German; ice-skating; Lexington Avenue; magazines; New York City; Park Avenue; playground; playmates; Plaza Hotel; policeman; Russia; Russian-Jewish; seamstress; second generation; stickball; superintendent; supermarket; violin repair; watches; watchmaker

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