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

Grandfather helping administration in camp

My grandfather, being a business man and having some administrative skills, he was tapped by the war relocation center because they were already starting to plan what was gonna happen to all of the incarcerees, where they were gonna get back and how they were gonna get employed and etc etc, so he was the only Japanese American that they brought into their office either in Little Rock or just in the camp. He went in there and was trying to find out ways of placing people, which was obviously a thankless task because nobody was hiring Japanese Americans much less providing housing for them or renting rooms to them. An amazing consequence of this whole experience. He did get some help from the people who were taking care of his business back in Honolulu. He also got a refrigerator, or ice box, from A.P. Giannini during the war.

I*: Sent to the camp?

Sent to the camp.

*"I" indicates an interviewer John Esaki.

Arkansas negócios campos de concentração economia Campo de concentração Jerome gerenciamento Estados Unidos da América Campos de concentração da Segunda Guerra Mundial

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)