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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: We have generations to come. Now, there are Sansei and the great grandchildren, Yonsei. What kind of Japanese values do you want to leave for them? To those children.

AT: Let's see. Not particularly... they don't know too much about Japan.

TY: Yes.

AT: So...

TY: Little by little, they pass on the traditions at home. Through life, through their daily life.

AT: That's right. But, those children who went to Japan say Japan was like this, like that. Those who have never been there say, "Oh, I don't care." In Japan, they were troubled with greeting. [Laughs] When they raised their heads, the others' heads were still down, so they lowered their heads again, and they did such things. They made them laugh and came back, and they made us laugh here. But, they were saying, "I will never live in a place where it's so narrow and meticulous like in Japan."

DG: But, do you want to pass on giri and on?

AT: Huh?

DG: Giri and On...

AT: Hmm, that is, I have already told my children about that. I said, "When you depend on someone's kindness, do not forget the on throughout your life." I teach them things like that, but the child's, each child is born with what, different qualities. There are children who do things fine even if we didn't tell them. On the other hand, there are children who say, "Oh, I forgot about that," even if we have told them. Oh, there are various types. Well, we don't trouble ourselves with the difference.

TY: Also, the Nikkei community has become stable, and there are facilities where people like you can live normal life by themselves.

AT: Yeah.

TY: There was no facility like this long time ago, was there?

AT: Yeah. Overall, yeah... In short, they went into to Keiro [Ed. note: Seattle Keiro; a nursing home run by Nikkei Concerns]. There are people who still go into Keiro, today. We also say that we want to go to Keiro. In the morning, they wake you up. Here, they wake me up. She [Ed. note: Mrs. Terao's friend was with her at the time of interview.] says, "Why don't you get up?" [Laughs]

TY: By your friend.

AT: She woke me up. She is an early-riser. [Laughs] Mrs. Kimura gets up early in the morning. I call myself "a morning cat awake at night." I would get up whenever I am called, but I fall asleep. I want to sleep in. Such a troublesome, aren't I?

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