Kingo Melvin Fujii oral history interview, part 1 of 3, June 26, 2006

0:00 - Introduction; father's background

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Keywords: employment; Hawaii; immigration; Issei; Japanese culture; Kabuki

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3:23 - Discussing his mother; and marriage to his father

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Keywords: Issei; Japanese culture; musicians; Shamisen; siblings; Yamaguchi, Japan

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4:44 - Discussing his early life in Hawaii

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Keywords: childhood; childhood activities; middle school; primary school

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6:14 - Discussing school years; punishments received

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Keywords: art; childhood; horseplay; middle school; mischief; sports

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9:00 - Discussing ethnicities at his school; Hawaii circa 1930s

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Keywords: Caucasian; Chinese; Filipino; Japanese; Korean; Portuguese

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10:49 - Discussing favorite Art teacher and learning Art style; high school

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Keywords: art; Japanese culture; philosophy; secondary education; teacher

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13:11 - Discussing his art classes in high school

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Keywords: drawing; painting; watercolors

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15:02 - Discussing his family; 8 brothers and sisters

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Keywords: family business; Issei parents; relationships; siblings

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17:16 - Describes his childhood home

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Keywords: food; living conditions; restaurant; siblings

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19:19 - Discussing his father's Kabuki theater

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Keywords: choreography; Hawaii; Japanese culture; plantation; restaurant; temple

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21:22 - Describes the family restaurant; Hawaii

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Keywords: food; Japanese culture; living conditions

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24:09 - Discussing recollections of Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: adolescents; aircraft; black out; neighbors

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27:10 - Recollections of Pearl Harbor II; at home with family

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Keywords: adolescent; air strike; fire; living conditions; radio; siblings

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29:03 - Describes another recollection of Pearl Harbor attack; neighbor injured

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Keywords: artillery fire; casualty; explosion; high school

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31:26 - Describes jobs worked in teen years

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Keywords: employment; high school; junior high; labor law; lumberjack; pineapples; plantation

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33:30 - Describes his family's reaction to Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: community leaders; Japanese government; photographs; property; Samurai swords; siblings

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35:51 - Recollections of Pearl Harbor aftermath II

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Keywords: blackouts in war; casualty; curfew; Hawaii; Japanese Americans; racism

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38:08 - Discussing Japanese language school in his youth and signs of war

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Keywords: air raid; Hawaiian identity; politics

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40:02 - Discussing his military service; volunteered

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Keywords: Asia Pacific Theater; basic training; enlist; military occupation; Occupied Japan

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43:09 - Describes his jobs in Occupied Japan

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Keywords: construction; Kobe; military occupation; Signal Corps.; Tokyo

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46:30 - Discussing transfer into counter intelligence

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Keywords: communists; Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC); Japan; photo lab; Russia; surrveillance

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48:27 - Discussing off-duty time in Japan

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Keywords: dancing; food; Japanese language; leave; relatives; social activities; Tokyo; winter

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52:12 - Describes post-war Japan; devastation

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Keywords: casualty; economic conditions; food; Kobe; living conditions; relatives; Yamaguchi

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55:09 - Discussing sights he saw in Japan; counter intelligence work

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Keywords: Japanese civilians; military occupation; photographs; Signal Corps

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