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DG: How would you characterize the Japanese community health-wise?

BU: Health-wise, they had a lot of TB. This is way back, we're talking, going back to the 19' early '50s and somewhere around there. You see, I knew about a lot of that because I was, I was on the board of directors at the TB Sanitarium for about twelve years. And the last few years I was, I was anti-TB League representative. You know, they had those Christmas seals? I was in charge of that Christmas seal and also in charge of dispensing the money out.

DG: So were you involved in that, because so many Japanese were?

BU: That's right, because I felt that they deserved, if they ask me, they deserved our help because of the fact that so many Japanese have benefited from it. So I was on that committee, committee and chair of the anti-TB, the anti-TB League's Christmas stamp. I was, in fact, the last three years, I was in charge of that thing before we canceled it out.

DG: So otherwise, besides the TB, what kind of problems do Japanese have?

BU: They had a lot of kids in drugs.

DG: Oh, now?

BU: Now, but not so much now as it was five years ago.

DG: Is that right? But they're all --

BU: They're all -- I never hear the, hear the Nisei talk much about it, but there are plenty of 'em.

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