Tomi Taba | Interview 1 | August 6, 2014

Oral History Center, UC Berkeley
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00:00:00 - Being adopted by relatives

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Keywords: Japan; Japanese; Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii; Okinawa, Japan; Okinawan; adoption; brothers; children; cousin; family; father; mother; name; parents; relative; siblings; sisters

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:04:09 - Childhood

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Keywords: Filipino; Japan; Japanese; Okinawan; Portuguese; adoption; childhood; countryside; cousin; ethnicity; family; farmer; food; friends; marry; money; mother; parents; pineapple field; plantation; rice; school; sisters; sweet potato; washing clothes; work; workers

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:11:13 - Religion

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Keywords: Christian; Christian college; University of Illinois; Wheaton College; children; daughter; education; family; high school; husband; mainland; religion; son; teacher

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:14:02 - Schooling / Sewing work

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Keywords: English; English school; Japanese; Japanese language school; Kalaheo, Waimea; Okinawan language; cannery; clothes; father; handmade clothes; in-laws; language; mother; parents; people; pineapple field; relatives; school; sewing; stammering; tailor shop; walking

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:19:27 - Going to the movies before WWII

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Keywords: 1930; 1931; Japanese movies; Waimea Theater; Waimea, Hawaii; money; movies; sewing work; the Great Depression; town

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:23:34 - Getting married

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Keywords: 1938; education; family; husband; in-laws; pineapple field; siblings; work

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:26:29 - Attack on Pearl Harbor / Pregnancy

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Keywords: 1941; Attack on Pearl Harbor; Captain Fuchida; Christian; Japanese; Japanese emperor; Kauai, Hawaii; bomb; bomb shelter; church; driving; hospital; in-laws; light; nighttime; pregnant; soldier; son; speech; uncle

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:32:15 - Relationship with American soldiers during war

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Keywords: Japanese food; daughter; dinner; drinking; husband; military; mother-in-law; shower; soldier; son

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:36:04 - Cooking for the family

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Keywords: animals; cooking; family; food; garden; in-laws; vegetables; wartime

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:38:40 - Okinawans / Transition of Kalaheo

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Keywords: Bon dance; Japanese; Kalaheo, Hawaii; Kauai, Hawaii; Okinawan; Portuguese; barbed wire; church; family; haole; husband; music; parents; second class; walking

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:43:24 - Concentration camp for Japanese during war

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Keywords: Japanese; TV; concentration camp; haole; husband; internment; mainland; movies; news; radio; soldiers; teacher

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:45:43 - Raising children

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Keywords: English; Hodgkin's disease; Japanese; Japanese school; baby; birth; cancer; children; daughter; husband; kids; mother-in-law; post war; sister-in-law

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:49:45 - Introduction to Jesus / Family members' whereabout

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Keywords: Baptist church; Buddhist; Christian; Christianity; Japanese; Jesus; Kalaheo, Kauai; Okinawan; Sunday night service; Sunday school; Washington; children; church; during war; family; friend; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; house; husband; lot; mainland; missionary; parents; post war; revival service; sons

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front

00:57:53 - Secrets of longevity

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Keywords: Japanese; Okinawan; entertainment; exercise; family; granddaughters; morning; neighbor; picture; play music; reading; sing; sons; teacher; walking

Subjects: Community and Identity; Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front