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Keywords: Big Island; emigrate; Hawaii; immigration; Issei; Japan; Kohala; Kohala Sugar; parents; picture bride; plantation; sugar; Union Mill; unskilled laborer; wife; Yamaguchi-ken

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Keywords: arrangement; countryside; dairy; education; father; finances; foreman; hard-working; Hawaii; horses; Kohala Sugar; laborer; letter; marriage; mother; necessities; parents; personality; photo; picture bride; plantation; sewing; stable; tailor; uneducated; Union Mill; wife

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Keywords: Buddhism; Buddhist; childhood; children; faith; families; Japanese; mother; philosophy; religion; sermon; traditional; values

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Keywords: Camp; childhood; demographics; families; Filipino; Hawaiian Chinese; Japanese; Kapow Town; Kohala Sugar; Masagawa; mixed; plantation; store

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Keywords: bath; brother; child labor; childhood; chop wood; chores; diesel; family; firewood; Hawaii; Hilo; kitchen; ofuro; overseas; parents; plantation work; running water; siblings; sister; smoke; water heater; wood stove

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Keywords: Christian minister; education; English; family; finances; friends; games; high school; hooky; internment camp; Japanese language school; magazines; mainland; neighbors; newspapers; parents; quit; swimming hole; teacher

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Keywords: ancestry; Camp Savage; classes; demographics; education; emperor; English school; environment; high school; intelligence; Japanese identity; Japanese language school; kanji; learn; lowest class; loyalty; mainland Japanese; MIS; mixed; reading test; regimental headquarters

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Keywords: algebra; appreciation; debate team; dedication; encouragement; English school; gratitude; honor society; illness; influence; mathematics; oratory contest; senior; student; teachers

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Keywords: bus; cane cutters; country; elementary school; graduation; grammar school; high school; horses; nature; plantation; recruitment; scale foreman; stables; sugar cane; tuition; wages; work

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Keywords: 100th; 1939; advisor; assistant basketball team manager; Atherton House; Danny Inoue; dorm; experiments; extension agent; farm; Friendly Indian Club; GI Bill; influence; Japanese American boxing club; Mitch Nishioka; nutrition research; overseas; part time job; plantation; poultry; roommate; ROTC; Sukihara; swine; teacher; University of Hawaii; veterinarian; vocational agriculture; YMCA

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Keywords: armory; attack; basketball team; bus; campusJapanese ancestry; conflict; Consul General; conversation; disbelief; dorm; English; Hawaii; hinomaru; Japan; Japanese; Nagao Kita; Pearl Harbor; plane; reaction; relationship; rising sun; roof; ROTC; shock; shop; shrapnel; smoke; swimming team; uniform; university; University of Hawaii; US; war

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Keywords: apology; Armory; blackout; Captain Mahikowa; Company A; duties; guard; high school; Japanese soldiers; Leilani Barracks; Leilani school; Major O’Connell; medical; paratroopes; Peal Harbor; platoon sergeant; red cross hospital; relief; report; rifle; ROTC

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Keywords: bewilderment; Captain Mahikowa; citizenship; discharge; dual citizens; Edwin Beaulieu; emotion; farewell party; Hawaii Territorial Guard; Japanese; Japanese ancestry; loyalty; reaction; ROTC; University of Hawaii; Wolf Hat

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Keywords: 1942; 34th Engineers; 442nd; assignment; Atherton Hose; campus; ceremony; comrades; dorm; first-aid station; friendship; Hank Oyasato; labor battalion; quarry; reaction; University of Hawaii; Varsity Victory Volunteers experience; volunteer; VVV

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Keywords: 10150: cold; 1943; 442nd; 5913: Nisei; 5940: Big Island; acceptance; airport; army; blackout; combat group; dinner; disband; draft board; exam; expectation; Hilo; Hilo March; home; illness; Leilani Palace; march; National Guard plane; Nisei; officers; papers; pier; pre-enlistment pass; priority; recruitment; register; Schoffield Barracks; send-off gathering; song; trip; Varsity Victory Volunteers; volunteer; VVV; war; War Department

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Keywords: 10703: katonks; 442nd; basic training; Camp Shelby; demanding; farmer; Fresno; fun; guitar; headquarters; healthy; I&R platoon; infantry; intelligence and reconnaissance platoon; language barrier; M1 rifle; motor pool; paintings; platoon leader; Regimental Headquarters Company; sergeant; squad; Tadashi Sato; tension; training; ukulele

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Keywords: barracks; Camp Savage; Camp Shelby; class; English; gym; hut; intensive study; interview; James Yoshinaga; Japanese; Japanese language school; John Iso; judo; kitchen; Korean; language; Military Intelligence Service; Minneapolis; MIS; Morris Takeda; Pai; recruiters; Take Yoshioka; teachers; Tom Haga; train; training; Yoshimi Hayashi

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Keywords: Australia; Bombay; bow; boxing team; California; Camp Anza; CBI; chef; China Burma India; Chinese; cook; extra meal; featherweight class; Filipino; fluent; hatches; Hawaiian; India; India-Burma theater; Japanese; Korean team; Los Angeles; match; Melbourne; Navy; New Hebrides; Puerto Rico; ship; staff technicians; team; training; weight; YMCA

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Keywords: assignment; baggage detail; Benning; boat; bombing; Captain Yoon; captured soldiers; cigarettes; coffee; Colonel Jonathan Swift; cooperative; Delhi; economic intelligence; factories; Haoule; immigrant; infantry; information; injured; interrogator; Japanese; job; leader; maps; OCS; POWs; prisoners; professor; psychological warfare; SEATIC; sick; South East Asian Translation and Interrogation Corps; study; tea; Tim Hirata; treat; US Army; war; West Point; work; wounded

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Keywords: allegiance; ammo; captain; cooperative; disgrace; enlisted; food; graduates; grenade; information; Japan; Japanese; Japanese prisoners; liberal; medicine; officers; POWS; private; propaganda leaflets; psychological warfare unit; PX; rank; samurai; shame; softball game; soldiers; starving; suicide; surrender; war

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