Entrevistas

1. Great grandfather working in Hawaii

2. Great grandparents' hotel business in Hawaii

3. Grandfather raised in the hotel business

4. Grandfather picked up by US Army

5. Grandfather's interrogations during World War II

6. Grandparents were incarcerated in Jerome, Arkansas

7. Grandfather's business in Hawaii while in camp

8. Finding his mother's high school valedictorian speech

9. Grandfather helping administration in camp

10. Grandfather Fujioka in Wailua

11. Growing up Japanese in Hawaii

12. Entering banking business

Fujioka,Robert T.

(n. 1952) Ex-executivo bancário, nascido no Havaí

Great grandfather working in Hawaii

My great-grandfather was a sugar worker and in those days you were a contract worker. You not only had to pay for your transportation to Hawaii but you also had to pay for your rent and food and all that good stuff before you actually got net pay. I’m not exactly sure how long his contract was for, but at least three to five years I believe. He actually was working on the Big Island.

After whatever time it took for him to pay off the transportation part of it, he left the plantation because he knew that was too difficult a way of making a living. He then was a stowaway on a boat from the Big Island to Maui.

When he was there on Maui he went to the old hotel called the Pioneer Inn and somehow convinced the owner to hire him and train him as a bartender. He actually started as a bartender there and he learned most of his English there and he got to see how people interacted and got to overhear a lot of interesting conversations, especially in a bar where people say things where they wouldn’t say anywhere else.

Havaí migração plantações Estados Unidos da América

Data: April 25, 2018

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Robert Fujioka nasceu em Honolulu, Havaí, em 1952. Frequentou a Universidade de Michigan obtendo o bacharelado e obteve o MBA pela Universidade do Havaí. Ele atua no setor bancário desde 1974 e atualmente atua como vice-presidente do Conselho de Administração do Museu Nacional Japonês Americano, curador da Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation e da First Hawaiian Bank Foundation. (Novembro de 2018)