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Surviving after father's death
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
Life changed drastically when my father died. Until then, we had a fairly comfortable life. …
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 …
Racial make-up of plantation camps
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
We lived in segregated camps. We lived in Japanese camp. And there was an Okinawan …
Clothes of plantation workers
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
For me, I think living in the hub of plantation life, right near the sugar …
Washing for Filipino bachelors
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
She (my mother) got up early in the morning to do her laundry for the …
Kids working hard
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
I think my mother’s generation, like your grandmother’s generation, the Confucian ethics were instilled in …
First day of school
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
So, first day of school, my mother, who couldn’t understand or speak any English, put …
Doing chores
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
All of us, she had assigned chores for us to do. My brothers had to …
Great grandfather working in Hawaii
Robert T. Fujioka April 25, 2018
My great-grandfather was a sugar worker and in those days you were a contract worker. …
Grandfather Fujioka in Wailua
Robert T. Fujioka April 25, 2018
My grandfather Fujioka was quite an entrepreneur himself. I don’t know how he did it …
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