Partial Transcript: Yoroku discusses German soldiers surrendering and the end of the war. He recalls the prisoner of war are gathered and held at an Airport. The prisoners of war are then searched and fumigated for lice. Yoroku did not go to the prisoner of war camp. At this point, he is the Company Mail Clerk.

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Keywords: 100th; European Theater; German soldiers; Hawaiian soldiers; Italy; Japanese American soldiers; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; surrender

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku discusses helping the Lieutenant mail German items back to the mainland. The Lieutenant also gives Yoroku a few German souvenirs (a pistol, compass, and other things). Yoroku also says the Lieutenant is the only one during the war who is receiving stock reports. The C company is assigned to Leghorn for the German prisoners to cleanup. One of the prisoners of war gives Yoroku a box made from wood, and the hinges are from the C ration cans.

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Keywords: 100th; European Theater; Japanese American soldiers; Leghorn; Livorno-Leghorn; Nisei soldiers; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku discusses the wooden box made by a German prisoner. Yoroku says he does not have contact with the prisoners of war due to his job assignment. Unfortunately, he does not know the name of that prisoner who gives him the box. In France and Italy, Yoroku does not associate with the locals. When the war ends, Yoroku is in northern Italy. He says the Army is sending soldiers home on the point system. Yoroku leaves from Naples, Italy, and arrives in Virginia. From there they take a train and go to Camp Beale, California.

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Keywords: 100th; 442nd; France; Germany; Hawaiian soldiers; Italy; Japanese American soldiers; Leghorn; Mainland; Nisei soldiers; Prisoners of War; Purple Heart

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Partial Transcript: When Yoroku arrives at Camp Beale, they are assigned different duties. The Second Lieutenant tells the returning veterans that they have kitchen duties. Yoroku shares stories about kitchen duty. Yoroku stays at Camp Beale for a week before going to Hawaii.

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Keywords: Hawaiian soldiers; Japanese Americans; Lieutenant; Mainland; Nisei; Nisei veterans; post-war

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku leaves Camp Beale and is discharged from the Army. Overseas, Yoroku corresponds to his mother through his older brother since he cannot write kanji. He would write about people who meet like Kenneth Nakamoto. Yoroku's mother lives in Maui. However, when Yoroku comes back home, he tells his mother to live with him in O'ahu.

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Keywords: Hawaii; Issei parents; Japanese Americans; Nisei; Nisei veterans; platoon; post-war; siblings

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Partial Transcript: Post-war, Yoroku becomes an electrician. He gets this job through his older sister. In 1978, Yoroku gets electrical burn 33% of his body while working on a department store project.

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Keywords: Hawaii; Japanese Americans; Nisei; Nisei veterans; siblings

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Partial Transcript: When Yoroku's brother-in-law retires, he takes over the company - Universal Electric. Yoroku's wife's name is Ayako Edith Yamada. Edith is friends with Yoroku's older sister and Yoroku attends high school with Edith's brother. Yoroku and Edith get married on August 18, 1948, in Maui at the Justice of Peace.

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Keywords: 100th; employment; family; friendship; Nisei veterans; post-war

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Partial Transcript: Before starting a family, Edith works at Universal Electric for two years. Yoroku and Edith have one son and three daughters. His son Gary lives in Oregon and works as an electrician. Previously, Gary work at Universal Electric during the summertime. The oldest daughter is Robin, Naomi, and Paula. There are ten grandchildren. At the moment, Yoroku and Edith have three grandchildren living with them. Yoroku's hobbies consist of bonsai trees and woodwork.

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Keywords: 100th; family; Nisei; Nisei veterans; post-war; Sansei; Yonsei

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku describes how the bonsai tree club starts. At Club 100, Ronald Higashi (C Company) suggests that the Nisei veterans started a bonsai tree club. Then they approach the Japanese bonsai club community. Eventually, Yoroku joins the Hawaii Bonsai Tree Association. Yoroku describes the process of caring for a bonsai tree and the different bonsai tree classifications. Yoroku travels to Japan and learns about the smaller size bonsai trees and specializes in those now. Once a year, Yoroku participates in bonsai seminars.

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Keywords: Hawaii; Japanese Americans; Nisei; Nisei veterans; post-war; social activities

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku discusses how long it takes to care for bonsai trees and the process of caring for the bonsai. Yoroku says bonsai trees can help reduce stress. Yoroku reflects on Kazuma Hisanaga and the last time they meet. Later Yoroku learns he passes away.

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Keywords: 100th; friendship; Hawaii; Nisei veterans; post-war; social activities

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku talks about telling the story of the 100th and 442nd to the youth.

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Keywords: 100th; 442nd; Japanese Americans; Nisei; Nisei veterans; Sansei; Yonsei

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku shows the wooden box he received made by a German prisoner of war. He shows the details of the box from the drawing and the metal hinges. Yoroku opens the box. There is a German army spoon, German badge, Italian propaganda note, and a photograph of Yoroku.

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Keywords: German soldiers; Italy; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; Nisei veterans

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Partial Transcript: Yoroku shows his army patches T5 and Go For Broke patch. Yoroku says he asks the mess hall cook to help him ask the prisoner of war to make him the wooden box.

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Keywords: 100th; German soldiers; Go For Broke; Japanese Americans; Nisei veterans; Prisoners of War

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