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DG: So what role did, like, the Nikkeijinkai play?

BU: Huh?

DG: Like the Nikkeijinkai.

BU: The kenjinkai? I don't know what role, but it brought the leaders together in Nikkeijinkai. My good friend and surrogate father is named Kubota, H.T. Kubota. He was in the middle of all of it. You ever hear that name, Kubota?

DG: Oh, yeah. I mean, he had the paper, right?

BU: Yeah, he had newspaper and he bought a lot of property and so on. Most of the stuff that they do in Buddhist church, he was the one that contributed.

DG: I read one place that because of the exclusion act --

BU: Yeah.

DG: -- that there was a requirement that the Japanese register?

BU: Yeah.

DG: And then the Nikkeijinkais took care of that and that's what sort of made them strong.

BU: Oh, I don't know.

DG: Something like that.

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