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Kasahara,Haruo

Sings traditional plantation labor song (ho-le ho-le bushi) in Japanese and Hawaiian

Haruo Kasahara June and July, 1991

[The ho-le ho-le bushi is about dragging the cane cuttings through the fields. Mrs. Kasahara …

Yonamine,Wally Kaname

Training for football by carrying 100-lb bags of grass over mountains

Wally Kaname Yonamine December 16, 2003

When I was a ninth grade, I went to Lahainaluna. Where I was staying, I …

Yonamine,Wally Kaname

Working in cane fields as teenager to supplement family income

Wally Kaname Yonamine December 16, 2003

Well, when I was 12, 14 years old, all the kids used to work in …

Ito,Mitsuo

Sugar-beets farm in Alberta

Mitsuo Ito March 23, 2005

So I went to Alberta in 1941, and it was a sugar-beets farm in Alberta, …

Sumida,Alice

Learning to do farm labor at a sugar beet farm

Alice Sumida December 6, 2005

After about 2 weeks there (Assembly Center), a man from the sugar beet field came. …

Nishimura,Shunji

Repaying Brazil by educating the technicians (Japanese)

Shunji Nishimura

(Japanese) The reason why our company (JACTO Group) got big, why we were able to …

Nishimura,Shunji

Delivering know-how to the next generation (Japanese)

Shunji Nishimura

(Japanese) You know, well, the reason why I started the school isn’t about profit; not …

Kasamatsu,Emi

Nikkei contributions to Paraguayan agriculture (Spanish)

Emi Kasamatsu October 7, 2005

(Spanish) The immigration treaty was for agricultural workers. For people to become farmers. So then …

Kodama,Ryoichi

Experiences in the farmlands (Japanese)

Ryoichi Kodama

(Japanese) I went to a farmland called Fasenda Dumont. There, the coffee wasn't growing much. …

Fukuhara,Jimmy Ko

Sugar beet farming process

Jimmy Ko Fukuhara February 6, 2015

The beet is about that big. Some of them are larger, and they could be …

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farming migration Brazil business education immigration sugar beets alberta assembly centers colombia family father hawaii hole-hole bushi logging Paraguay plantation share cropping song sugar beet farm sugar cane

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