Gender

Male

Birth date

1927-8-9

Place of birth

Waianae HI, U.S.A.

Inducted

1946-3-1, Schofield Barracks HI

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

Peacetime

Unit type

Support

Units served

MIS-CIC

Military specialty

Military Intelligence
Interpreter

Stationed

USA: Ft. Snelling, MN;Prresidio of Monterey, CA
Other Countries: Beppu, Kanazawa, Nanao, Japan

Separated

Ft. Shafter HI

Unit responsibility

Military intelligence.

Personal responsibility

House Manager
Interpreter
Courier
Keep my mind occupied.
Not to think about home.
To get along with all the officers I worked with.

Living conditions

Beppu:
Lived in a modern house with onsen bath.
Food more than adequate with a military base nearby.
Probably the only unit with a yacht anchored in bay.
Learned to golf.

Kanazawa:
Spent harsh winter in a Christian kindergarten school. No central heating. Maid came early morning to put on electric heater in our room.

Most vivid memory of military experience

My First Job:
The Chief of Police in Kokura invited our unit to a boat-ride/social. Sitting between our Major and the Chief of Police, I leaned over to the Chief to inform him that I was ''new'' at this job, so would he please speak in simple (kantan) Japanese. Our conversation went on smoothly. Ad-libbed a lot.

Missed most whilst in the military

News of the world. In Japan we were insulated. Hardly listened to radio or read newspaper.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

To live and work among the Japanese people. Learn their culture, language/dialect.

For my family, a visit to Japan. Have closer ties with our relatives in Ehime-ken

Additional information

Being of Japanese ancestry, my dream was to visit Japan. As a 20 year-old nisei, I had countless opportunities to enrich myself, most illegally. Before I did anything rash, I remembered my mother's advice: ''Help the people.''