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vh Kiyo Maruyama Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1003-1-18)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor: needing birth certificate to buy a train ticket

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vh Kiyo Yoshimura Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-344-2)

Father's early work for the Santa Fe railroad company, living in a commune of Japanese American families

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vh Kay Uno Kaneko Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-282-7)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor; brother was working in Japan at the time

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vh Earl Hanson Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-160-10)

Memories of Pearl Harbor bombing and aftermath; watching Japanese American friends prepare for mass removal

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vh Earl Hanson Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-160-7)

Memories of Japanese families on Bainbridge Island before World War II; visiting friends' homes

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vh Earl Hanson Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-160-16)

Description of atmosphere on Bainbridge Island, Washington, after the Japanese Americans had been removed

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vh Akira Otani Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-321-13)

Reaction to being removed from the Hawaiian Territorial Guard because of Japanese American background

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vh Masamizu Kitajima Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-287-32)

Feeling like an outcast and being bullied because of going to camp on the mainland

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vh Masamizu Kitajima Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-287-22)

As the eldest son, enforcing rules within the family in the absence of father

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vh Masamizu Kitajima Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-287-34)

Recovering the money to build the church that father had hidden at the start of the war

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vh Art Hansen Interview II Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-310-1)

Conducting interviews of social scientists who had been connected with the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study

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vh Herbert Y. Miyasaki Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1007-10-4)

Being asked to help select the group of volunteers for a secret mission (audio only)

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vh James Lovell Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1007-12-2)

Witnessing the reactions of white officers to an all-Japanese American unit (audio only)

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vh Richard Kosaki Interview Segment 32 (ddr-janm-13-1-32)

Continued involvement in the upper administration of the University of Hawaii; planning for the establishment of the community college system

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vh Tokio Yamane Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-432-31)

Learning of Japan's surrender (Japanese language)

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vh Richard Kosaki Interview Segment 17 (ddr-janm-13-1-17)

Discussion of differences between Hawaii and the mainland U.S. during World War II, and the Hawaiian spirit of aloha

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vh Richard Kosaki Interview Segment 10 (ddr-janm-13-1-10)

The aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor: volunteering as supply clerk at a first aid station, handing out gas masks

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vh Richard Kosaki Interview Segment 9 (ddr-janm-13-1-9)

A trip to Boston, Massachusetts for a national council of student body presidents; first trip out of the Hawaiian Islands

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vh Haruye Murakami Hagiwara Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-284-23)

Father's return home: "he tried to make it sound like he had a grand vacation"

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vh Elsa Kudo Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-388-10)

The journey by boat the U.S.: mother begs an American soldier for milk for her infant

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vh Rose Matsui Ochi Interview I Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-276-13)

Junior high school: demonstrating leadership qualities and deciding to purse a career as a gym teacher

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vh Shig Yabu Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-272-24)

Deciding to write a book about pet bird and getting involved with the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

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vh Marjorie Matsushita Sperling Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-273-6)

Relations between whites and Japanese in the Yakima valley: "I think they tolerated each other"

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vh Marjorie Matsushita Sperling Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-273-3)

Mother's arrival in the U.S. as a "picture bride": "it was a shock for her"

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vh James Yamazaki Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-175-14)

Applying for medical schools and choosing those that would be amenable to Asian American students

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