46 results
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 …
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, …
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 …
Yobiyose system in Canada
Bill Hashizume October 29, 2005
Yobiyose, is, literally means "to call over," yobiyoseru, "call over." And there was this system …
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 …
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 …
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 …
- 1 (current)
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5