34 results

Funai,Kazuo

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 …

Funai,Kazuo

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. …

Naito,Sam

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 …

Hashizume,Bill

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 …

Hashizume,Bill

Liaison between the Americans and the Japanese

Bill Hashizume October 29, 2005

I already had a job lined up with a construction company at the time of …

Kobayashi,Bert A.

Getting involved in the family business at age 19

Bert A. Kobayashi June 1, 2006

When I was 19, I was going to Kapiolani Community College and my dad got …

Kobayashi,Bert A.

A body, mind and spirit work ethic

Bert A. Kobayashi June 1, 2006

You know I guess we…our company is not like the big five where we have …

Nishimura,Shunji

Learning skills by watching others work (Japanese)

Shunji Nishimura

(Japanese) Replacing the bottoms of bacias (basins)—do you know bacias? Well, I replaced the bottom …

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 …

Kobayashi,BJ

About Albert Chikanobu Kobayashi, Inc.

BJ Kobayashi June 1, 2006

Oh sure, that’s easy. My grandfather’s name is Albert Chikanobu Kobayashi. Albert C. Kobayashi, Inc. …

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