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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, …
Undergraduate studies interrupted following Pearl Harbor
Sam Naito December 8, 2005
It was the most devastating feeling that I ever had. I was at the University …
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 …
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 …
Father's role in starting the Wailea Milling Company
Margaret Oda May 31, 2006
Eventually, after several years [in Hawai‘i], my father was asked by Mr. Cabrino, who had …
Repaying Brazil by educating the technicians (Japanese)
Shunji Nishimura
(Japanese) The reason why our company (JACTO Group) got big, why we were able to …
Nikkei contributions to Paraguayan agriculture (Spanish)
Emi Kasamatsu October 7, 2005
(Spanish) The immigration treaty was for agricultural workers. For people to become farmers. So then …
Encouraged to go to college
Toshio Inahara December 6, 2005
We applied for a travel permit to go to eastern Oregon and successfully were able …
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