Interview with Mitsugi (Mitaru) Muraoka

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1987

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Nishimoto, Warren
Ebata, Burt

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Muraoka, Mitsugi (Mitaru)

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A sugar plantation employee recalls his family's move from Lawai to Koloa and recalls everyday life in Japanese Camp, including beekeeping and pig raising. Also details his plantation jobs from hapai ko (sugar cane loader) to harvesting superintendent.
sugar plantation laborer, harvesting supervisor, harvesting superintendent; Japanese; male
Interview conducted in English.

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Japanese - Lifestyles, Koloa (district), Plantation Life, Sugar Cane, Working Conditions

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30022

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2 hr, 57 min
61 pages

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Interview

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Koloa, Kauai

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DU629 .K64 K6 1987a

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Koloa: An Oral History of a Kaua‘i Community
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