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) Antiguo ejecutivo de la banca, nacido en Hawái

Grandfather Fujioka in Wailua

My grandfather Fujioka was quite an entrepreneur himself. I don’t know how he did it but he somehow got out of the cane fields pretty early and he actually got the lease from the plantation to run the plantation store so he ran the plantation store (they had different camps at these plantations) so they went to Wailua on the north shore of Oahu, Wailua Sugar Company, and so they had the general store there in Japanese camp, but then they expanded and ran the general store for all the camps, and at the height of his business whatever history, they had three stores, a movie theater… anyway he was quite the entrepreneur. And so typical Japanese style, two brothers and the sister ran the store, and my father being the youngest, he was the first graduate from Wailua high school, and he was the first Fujioka to to go to college, and graduate from college and go to dental school, so they just pushed him up the next rung.

espíritu empresarial Hawái plantaciones tiendas Estados Unidos

Fecha: April 25, 2018

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Robert Fujioka nació en Honolulu, Hawái en 1952. Asistió a la Universidad de Michigan en donde obtuvo el grado de bachiller en artes y obtuvo un MBA de la Universidad de Hawái. Ha estado en el sector de la banca desde 1974 y actualmente es vicepresidente de la junta directiva del Museo Nacional Japonés Americano, patrono de la Fundación Clarence T.C. Ching y de la Fundación First Hawaiian Bank. (Noviembre de 2018)