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Hawaii Nisei Project: Americans of Japanese Ancestry During World War Ii

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Meet Takejiro Higa. In order to avoid being drafted into Japan's Manchuria Development Youth Corps, he begged his sister for fare to flee to Hawaii in 1939. A few years later while working in Oahu, Higa watched the bombing of Pearl Harbor through binoculars from a YMCA rooftop. Volunteering his expertise, Higa became a U.S. soldier and it is because of brave men like him that WWII was won. Read and listen to harrowing tales such as Takejiro's and explore an astonishing side of history rarely told.

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