Interview with Bunji Fujimoto

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1998

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Nishimoto, Warren

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Fujimoto, Bunji

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The son of an independent sugarcane grower remembers family life, cane cutting work, and schooling. A Laupahoehoe School student, he describes the receding ocean and the tidal wave that claimed the lives of fellow students, including his younger brother, and teachers on April 1, 1946.
sugar plantation field worker, agriculture laboratory worker; Japanese; male
Interview conducted in English.

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Natural Disasters, North Hilo (district), Plantation Life, Schools, Sugar Cane

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30347

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1 hr, 50 min
29 pages

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Interview

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Hilo, Hawaii (island)

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DU629 .H28 T78 2000

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Tsunamis Remembered: Oral Histories of Survivors and Observers in Hawai‘i

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