0:00 - Introduction / Being drafted and becoming an interpreter in occupied Japan

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Keywords: draft; Honolulu, Hawaii; interpreter; Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS); occupation force; Tokyo, Japan

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2:31 - Introduction / Service time in South Korea

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Keywords: 314 Language Detachment; gorillas; interpreter; North Korea; Pusan, South Korea; Taegu, South Korea

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4:03 - Introduction / Return to Japan and reenlistment into the Counter Intelligence Corps

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Keywords: Communists; Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC); family; Japan; meetings and demonstrations section; reenlistment

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5:56 - Introduction / Marriage, leaving the Counter Intelligence Corps, and subsequent jobs to retirement

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Keywords: civil service; clearance section; illness; Japan; marriage; Naval Intelligence; retirement; Special Agent; wife

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8:36 - Family immigration to Hawaii and repatriation back to Japan in 1940

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Keywords: contract laborer; father; Honolulu, Hawaii; Issei; mother; Okinawa, Japan; repatriation; sugarcane fields

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11:14 - Leaving Japan and returning to Hawaii

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Keywords: high school; mechanic; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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12:48 - Background information on father

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Keywords: father

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13:21 - Community feelings about a potential war between America and Japan

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Keywords: China; Manchuria; repatriation; war

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14:10 - Boyhood experiences growing up in Hawaii

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Keywords: class divisions; clothing; family; friends; Haole; kendo; Nisei; Oahu, Hawaii; school

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19:02 - School experiences

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Keywords: English; GI Bill; Hawaii; Japanese; Japanese School; school; university

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21:43 - Thoughts on prewar Hawaii

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Keywords: education; English; Waikiki Beach

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23:43 - Witnessing the events on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor

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Keywords: bombers; bombs; dogfights; fighters; Hickam Field; high school; marines; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, mechanic

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