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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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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. …

An emotional response from mother upon talking about incarceration experience
Dale Minami February 8, 2003
And about that time I started asking my mother and my father. They talked a …

Repaying Brazil by educating the technicians (Japanese)
Shunji Nishimura
(Japanese) The reason why our company (JACTO Group) got big, why we were able to …

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 …

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 …

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