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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: Those people...

AT: Well, we were, we had one room to ourselves. It wasn't like just one, it was made to accommodate people on the top and the bottom. Another one next to it, it was like people could sleep on the top and the bottom, three people, three people... one, two, three people were sleeping there. There, in one room. On the top and the bottom beds. We were sleeping like that, and that, it wasn't like everybody huddled together to sleep. That was because we had the passports. When we told them the reason, they saw our passports, and said, "Is that so. Then, this room, this room, and this room are open, then we'll give you the top and the bottom." In this way, we got the room.

TY: There were many things you had priorities with the non-immigrants' passports.

AT: Yes, yes, there were. Yeah, because we had the permit of the non-immigrants.

TY: What did you need to do and have in order to get the non-immigrants, to get the passports of the non-immigrants.

AT: That was, well, the labor workers couldn't get it. The reason Terao could get it was because, what was it called, because he had his own business. That's how he got it. So, I, I was wondering if I had the passport back then, and I was looking for it though...

TY: Well, if we could see it someday when you find it. Yes, we would like to see it.

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