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Company in Tokyo burned down (Japanese)
Kazuo Funai October 14 & 17, 2004
(Japanese) Even if I want to go home, I can’t so it’s useless. There’s no …

Bad business deal (Japanese)
Kazuo Funai October 14 & 17, 2004
(Japanese) On Beverly Boulevard, I started a farmer’s market. I started it with a partner. …

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 …

Daily life in his childhood
Mitsuo Ito March 23, 2005
We always had to go back home and pick strawberries. Farming was more important than …

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, …

Starting an import business after World War II
Sam Naito December 8, 2005
Right after the war ended and coming back and then I decided well, I guess …

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. …

Father’s success in farm business
Bill Hashizume October 29, 2005
Well, my father, at first he started out with about twenty-seven or twenty-eight-acre farm. And …