0:00 - Mother's background / Expense of her moving to the United States

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Keywords: aunt; crop; frugality; Nigata; property; rice; sister; Tokyo

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2:06 - Fond family memories

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Keywords: breakfast; cereal; Chinese restaurant; City Island; cooking; day trip; dinner; education; English; fishing; grammar school; high school; roast beef; subway; summer; Sunday

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6:23 - Fishing trip picnics

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Keywords: bacon; bologna; bread; butter; fish; ham; loaf; lunch; mayonnaise; meat; milk; onigiri; picnic; rice ball; sandwiches; soda; vegetable

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7:38 - Memories of mother -- Her "Gaman" mentality

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Keywords: cancer; church; Cornell Medical Center; cracker business; dry cleaning; hospital; operation; perseverance; sewing

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12:32 - Family's unemotional personalities

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; band; bus; Camp Shelby; draft; Hawaiian soldiers; high school; higher education; induction center; Pearl Harbor

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15:59 - Elementary and high school career

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Keywords: 57th Street; 59th Street; 63rd Street; aeronautics; Annapolis; athletics; clubs; co-education; Columbia University; communication studies; courses; elementary school; general studies; grammar school; high school; junior high school; mechanics; music; naval academy; New York City; Newtown High School; P.S. 59; P.S. 74; Pulitzer Prize; Queens; scholars; teams; West Point

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19:57 - Extracurricular and church activities

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Keywords: art; church; French club; geography club; hiking; language class; leather goods; linoleum; Sunday school; woodcraft

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21:30 - Memorable teachers / Relationship among teachers and students

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Keywords: "Oriental"; "teachers pet"; Asian; curriculum; education; high school; junior high school; public school; tests

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24:09 - Speaking Japanese to parents in the household / Japanese as hierarchical language and its structure

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Keywords: democratic language; embarrassing; grammar; hierarchical language; language structure; lingua franca

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26:38 - Feelings about being the only Japanese American student in school

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Keywords: Anglo-Saxon; Asian; bar mitzvah; children; cultures; ethnicities; French; Irish; Italian; Japanese; Thanksgiving; turkey; wedding

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