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VY: Backing up a little bit, you talked about your grandparents, your grandfather mostly took care of your mom, he didn't work.

JF: Yes.

VY: But your grandma, your grandmother did work, what kind of work did she do?

JF: She did what they used to call day work. She would go and cook for families, maybe just one or two families, do their housekeeping, that kind of thing.

VY: And do you know why your grandfather didn't work? This is kind of interesting.

JF: Well, according to my mother, physically he wasn't really, he had some weakness, some illness, not very strong. And I don't know, she even used to say maybe he didn't want to work, he'd rather stay home. So that's a good question, I wish I knew more about that.

VY: And then your grandparents, when they came to America, they were already married?

JF: Yes, they were. My grandfather was thirty-three and my grandmother was twenty-four, and they did have a son, they left a son in Japan. Well, they came again for all the reasons that most immigrants come to the United States or America, to find a better life for themselves.

VY: Do you know what happened to the son, did the family say in touch with the son?

JF: They did go back, I believe, in 1928, was it, when my mother was fourteen, and she met him, and that was the only time that they had met. I don't know what happened to him, it's a good question.

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