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Alameda Japanese American History Project Oral History Collection
Title: Kenji Tomita Interview
Narrator: Kenji Tomita
Interviewer: Jo Takeda
Location: San Rafael, California
Date: November 20, 2021
Densho ID: ddr-ajah-1-3-4

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JT: Well, I'm trying to think if you were born in '24, what school did you go to?

KT: Well, that's interesting because I went first to Everett School, and that was the last class there. And Everett school...

JT: Before it closed?

KT: It closed, yeah. And so that was probably 1930?

JT: That was about 1930, okay.

KT: And my class was the last class.

JT: Because the school closed, okay.

MT: It closed in 1931.

JT: Okay.

[Interruption]

JT: So you went to Everett School. And did you have any other Japanese kids in your class?

KT: Yeah.

JT: Who were they?

KT: We were, our class was, we had twenty students, and I would say nine of them were Japanese. And we had one Chinese, Ming Sang, and...

MT: He went to Everett School, too?

KT: Yeah.

JT: And do you still know him? How do you know him, Mary? Ming Sang Ng?

MT: Because he lived across the street from me.

JT: Oh, for heaven's sake.

[Interruption]

JT: So when you were at Everett School, did you walk to school?

KT: Yeah.

JT: Because it was close.

KT: Right. But then after it closed, then we had to go to Porter School.

JT: Everybody... yes, I went to Porter School.

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