I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.
I grew up in a Navy family.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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