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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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Repaying Brazil by educating the technicians (Japanese)
Shunji Nishimura
(Japanese) The reason why our company (JACTO Group) got big, why we were able to …
No question about going into the family business
BJ Kobayashi June 1, 2006
That I would go into real estate development and that I would…or some sort of …
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