Yutaka Inokuchi Interview Segment 14

Parents' background: married by proxy (ddr-densho-1000-320-1) - 00:08:59
Parents' prewar life in Hawaii: working on a sugar plantation (ddr-densho-1000-320-2) - 00:05:16
Mother's family background (ddr-densho-1000-320-3) - 00:08:47
Growing up on a sugar plantation (ddr-densho-1000-320-4) - 00:04:54
Features of the plantation: communal bath, store, church, school (ddr-densho-1000-320-5) - 00:07:00
Attending Japanese language school (ddr-densho-1000-320-6) - 00:04:47
Recreational activities as a child: Boy Scouts, camping and festivals (ddr-densho-1000-320-7) - 00:09:30
Growing up with other ethnic groups on the plantation (ddr-densho-1000-320-8) - 00:08:03
Hearing the attack on Pearl Harbor from school (ddr-densho-1000-320-9) - 00:05:08
Seeing the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack (ddr-densho-1000-320-10) - 00:06:49
Taking in three children whose parents had been arrested by the FBI (ddr-densho-1000-320-11) - 00:07:26
Father's arrest by the FBI (ddr-densho-1000-320-12) - 00:04:33
Father's medical problems while in detention facilities (ddr-densho-1000-320-13) - 00:06:59
Working at the Honouliuli POW camp where father was interned (ddr-densho-1000-320-14) - 00:06:07
Visiting father at Honouliuli camp (ddr-densho-1000-320-15) - 00:05:57
Father's release in 1945 (ddr-densho-1000-320-16) - 00:05:25
Getting married and building own home (ddr-densho-1000-320-17) - 00:08:43
Staying connected with family in Japan (ddr-densho-1000-320-18) - 00:06:06
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Working at the Honouliuli POW camp where father was interned

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Yutaka Inokuchi

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Yutaka Inokuchi Interview

02:00:29 — 18 segments

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March 3, 2011

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Honolulu, Hawaii

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Nisei male. Born August 25, 1924, in Waipahu, Hawaii. Grew up on the Waipahu sugar plantation where parents worked. Was attending Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Father was picked up by the FBI and eventually interned in the Honouliuli POW camp. Mr. Inokuchi got a job in the Honouliuli camp where he could visit his father. After the war, worked for the Honolulu Board of Water Supply.

(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)

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Tom Ikeda, interviewer; Dana Hoshide, videographer

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