Kenjiro Akune oral history interview, part 6 of 7, January 9, 1999

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Akune continues his experiences in the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) as an interrogator. He discusses some of his experiences interrogating soldiers and also talking to "comfort girls." He describes escorting Prisoners of War (POWs) from China and a reunion with his family in Kagoshima where he found out that two of his brothers served in the Japanese Army. Finally, he discusses his experiences in Post-war Japan, his discharge at Cam Beale, visiting the "No-No Boys" at Tule Lake Concentration Camp and volunteering to serve as a Japanese linguists in the Post-war Occupation of Japan.

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00:27:42

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1999OH0037_06_Akune

Citation

Akune, Kenjiro: narrator, Nakaishi, Russell: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Kenjiro Akune oral history interview, part 6 of 7, January 9, 1999,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed October 11, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/145.