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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 …
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, …
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 …
Yobiyose system in Canada
Bill Hashizume October 29, 2005
Yobiyose, is, literally means "to call over," yobiyoseru, "call over." And there was this system …
Starting work at five years old
Francis Y. Sogi May 29, 2006
As soon as I could work, I was put to work. I*: How old were …
Father's role in starting the Wailea Milling Company
Margaret Oda May 31, 2006
Eventually, after several years [in Hawai‘i], my father was asked by Mr. Cabrino, who had …
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