0:35 - Family history and education

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Keywords: barber shop; brother; Buddhism; dancing; family; father; Hawaii; high school; Honolulu; intermediate school; Japanese language school; Japanese planes; Kailani Elementary School; mother; Pearl Harbor; siblings; sister; YMCA; Youth club

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1:57 - Bombing of Pearl Harbor/ Nisei soldiers' rifles are taken

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Keywords: Army; barracks; declaration; duty; informal practice; Japanese; Japanese descent; maneuvers; outside; Pearl Harbor; planes; president; railway; reported; rifles; Schoffield Barracks; soldiers; uncle; war

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4:05 - Life for the Japanese in Hawaii during government martial law

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Keywords: barber shop; blackout; commodities; curfew; food; gas; Japanese descent; Japanese removal; martial law; mother; move; Nisei; racial discrimination; Railway depot station; rationing

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5:38 - Turned away from volunteering/ Kiawe Corps for the War Effort

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Keywords: AJA; American; Americans of Japanese Ancestry; bag lunch; barbed wire; beds; Chinese; civilian; cleaning; desks; Ewa Beach; Filipino; Hawaii; high school; hospital; Japanese descent; Kiawe Corps; labor corps; military; mosquitoes; Nisei; pay; Pearl Harbor; plantation; racial discrimination; recruit; school; sing; soldiers; song; train; transport; truck; under guard; US soldier; volunteer

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9:55 - High school and working for the war effort/ Post high-school work

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Keywords: 1943; AJA; consent; education; government jobs; graduate; high school; interpreters; Japanese-American; low-paying jobs; mail clerk; military; Nisei; parents; pineapple canneries; recruitment; school; School of Business; war effort; work; YMCA

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11:40 - Joining the army/ Assigned to POW's at Schoffield Field Annex Hospital

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Keywords: 1945; 6020fi; Allied Military Government; army; barracks; beds; Europe; Hawaii; induction; interpreter detachment; interpreters; Japanese; Japanese POW’s; mainland; Milau; Navy; occupation; Saipan; Schoffield Field Annex Hospital; school; South Pacific; surrender; teacher; Teinjin; temporary POW; VJ Day; war

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13:13 - Being sent to Okinawa's Buckner Bay/ Frequent air raids by Japanese

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Keywords: air field; air planes; bay; bombardment; bombing; Buckner Bay; detachment; invasion; Japanese; kamikaze; Military Government Headquarters; Navy; Okinawa; pilots; raid; run way; ships; strafe; United States; war conditions; wreckage

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15:09 - Working as an interpreter with the Counterintelligence Corps/ Japan's surrender

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Keywords: atomic bomb; Bob Kimura; captured Japanese soldiers; CIC; counterintelligence corps; food; Ginoza; Hiroshima; interpreters; Japanese surrender; Marines; Military government; Military Intelligence Service language school; MISLS; Nagasaki; necessities; Okinawa home guard soldiers

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16:21 - Work on the Navy Bomb Disposal Team on smaller Okinawan islands/ Lying about his rank

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Keywords: 10th Army Expeditionary Forces; arms; Army; civilian; collection; destroy; embarrassment; government; inspection; islands; Japanese officers; Japanese soldiers; kamikaze boats; Miyako; Navy Bomb disposal team; Navy Operation Base (NOB); nickname; Okinawa; private; rank; sea mine locations; status; sub-islands; team

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18:38 - Jobs with US Military Government in Okinawa

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Keywords: Buckner Bay; Buckners Bailey; camp interpreter; camp supervisor; civilians; construction; electrical generators; Military government; Navy Supply Depot; Okinawa; rehabilitation; teach; training; Unit 10

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19:45 - Map of Okinawa and locations of service

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Keywords: Buckner Bay; CB outfits; Charlie Osuka; Chinen; CIC; civilians; construction battalions; cooperative; counterintelligence corps; extension; food commodities; hometown; information; interrogation; invasion; Japan; Japanese prisoners; KunigamiGinoza; map; MG 10; military government (MG); Naha; Nisei interpreters; Okinawa; outfit; populated; posts; POW’s; prisoner compound; procurement officer; rationing depot; ships; stations; war; Yaka Compound

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25:40 - Light-triggered sentry guards/Repatriating civilians from Sakhalin and Manchuria

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Partial Transcript: Japan;interrogation team;repatriation;civilans;Manchuria;Sakhalin;Maizuru;Kyushu;Lieutenant Takemoto;McKiney;Haole;Japan Army;crack army;Russians;hide;elderly;children;captured;convert;Red Army;communist;POW camp;Hokkaido;United States;reports;harbor;returning ships;officers;soldiers;spy;information gathering;MISLS;rank;

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Keywords: American song; camp; goats; light trigger; night; Okinawa; Sedake; sentries; song

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34:23 - Movement order for the interrogation team/ Planned visit to grandparents

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Keywords: 355 interrogation team; authorization; Fukuoka; grandfather; grandparents; Hakata; Hakodate; Hiroshima; interrogation team; Kuba; Maizuru; movement order; order; sea port; visit

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37:31 - Continuing repatriation work in Hokkaido/ Technical Intelligence Corps in Tokyo

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Keywords: : interrogating; army; bombard; Burma; civilians; ferry; frozen port; Hakodate; Health Department; Hokkaido; Japan; Japanese soldiers; Manchuria; officer; Okinawa; rations; rebuilding; repatriation; reports; return; Sakhalin; sanitation department; station; subway; Technical Intelligence Corps; TIC; Tokyo; town; Ueno; unsanitary

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43:02 - Learning to build a water tank in Chinen, Okinawa

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Keywords: barrel; camp; Chinen district; civilians; concrete; engineering; gravitation; interpreter; Navy engineer; Navy officer; Okinawa; operation; pipe; plateau; sledgehammer; underground; water; water pump; water tank construction

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48:33 - Learning some electrical engineering and construction on the job

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Keywords: Army Headquarters; butler’s quarters; cables; civilians; concrete foundation; constant harness; construction; diesel engine; electrician; generator; kamaboko house; lumber; Nagai; Okinawa; saw mill; supply depot; typhoon

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51:39 - Unloading rations for Okinawan civilians at Kin Harbor

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Keywords: beans; Buckner Bay; civilians; floating pontoon; food; Ishikawa; Kin Harbor; LST; Okinawa; ration quarters; rations; rice; ship; supply; trucks; Yaka compound

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54:39 - Post-war occupation in architecture/ Education with GI Bill

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Keywords: Architectural engineering firm; Army; barber shop; colonerl; draft; drafting; draftsman; gas company; GI Bill; Hawaii; Korea; Law and Wilson Architect Engineers; lieutenant commander; McKinley Vocational School; mother; night classes; officer; pipe fitting; post-war; retire; surveying; University of Hawaii; vocational school; welder; Wilson, Okamoto, and Associates

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58:24 - Meeting his wife/ Recognition as part of MIS

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Keywords: Army; children; daughter; dengue fever; family; field hospital; Hawaii; Honolulu; hospital; Island Paradise School; kindergarten; MIS; Navy clinic; Okinawa; Senator Okaka; son; wife

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