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

Great grandparents' hotel business in Hawaii

He actually went back to the Big Island and found his future wife, whose last name I believe was Higashi, but I don’t know anything about her family other than that they had a reputation for making very good poi on the Big Island. Anyway, she went back with him to Maui and together they scraped enough money to start their own hotel. So they started the Kagawa hotel in Kahului or Wailuku in Maui. Must have been Kahului. Anyway, it was the only Japanese hotel and so they did pretty well because there were obviously a lot of immigrants coming in from Japan and I guess at that time there was even trade that was developing. Anyway, he did pretty well as a hotel owner and he and his wife had four children.

negocios economía Hawái hoteles gestión 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)