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DG: Now this is when, still when he was single?

BU: When he was single, yeah. And then, and then a couple years after that, 1914, he made arrangements to get married to my mother.

DG: And she is from...

BU: She is from Toyama. She was in the house he lived in while he was going to high school.

DG: Okay.

BU: That's how it was.

DG: Oh, I see. I see. It wasn't your grandmother, it was your mother that you were talking about.

BU: My mother, yeah, yeah. So that, it's an interesting story. So my dad was a strong person, anything he goes, goes... even in the war just before he left to go to Puyallup he got up, and says, "You people, Damatte. Shizuka ni shi, mo shikatta ga nai koto. Dame dakara, so shikaranai de yukoto kikanakutte wa ikenai."

DG: Uh-huh.

BU: Yeah, we all did anytime. In fact, when my brother told Dad that he didn't want to go to college, he looked him in the eye, and he said, "You're my son and you are going to go to college and you go." So that's how he went to UW. I was going to go anyway, but he, he made my brother go.

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BU: And they had a number of kids. So therefore, he, he had a Japanese school. It's a funny thing you talk about it because I just met somebody that was his pupil.

DG: In Yakima?

BU: Tossie Yamaguchi. She was his pupil. She said, "Your father was my Japanese school teacher."

DG: So the Japanese set up Japanese schools wherever they went, didn't they?

BU: Wherever they... I think that's very good, because they didn't want to lose the flavor of being Japanese.

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