0:35 - Family history and education
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1:57 - Bombing of Pearl Harbor/ Nisei soldiers' rifles are taken
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4:05 - Life for the Japanese in Hawaii during government martial law
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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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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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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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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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48:33 - Learning some electrical engineering and construction on the job
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51:39 - Unloading rations for Okinawan civilians at Kin Harbor
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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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