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Title: Yasashi Ichikawa Interview I
Narrator: Yasashi Ichikawa
Interviewer: Tomoyo Yamada
Location: Portland, Oregon
Date: October 16, 1999
Densho ID: denshovh-iyasashi-01-0021

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[Translated from Japanese]

YI: There are some prefectures from where not many emigrated. My prefecture did not send out very many immigrants, but there are many who came from Hiroshima.

TY: There are many from Yamaguchi, too.

YI: There are many from the regions of Yamaguchi Prefecture close to Hiroshima. My region is closer to Kyushu. There are few from that region. From Shimonoseki. There are many from Kumamoto. From Kumamoto. Kagoshima.

TY: How about Miyazaki?

YI: There are quite a few from Kagoshima.

TY: How about Miyazaki?

YI: Funatake?

TY: Miyazaki Prefecture.

Shinya: Miyazaki Prefecture.

YI: Who?

Shinya: Miyazaki Prefecture.

YI: Yeah, Miyazaki Prefecture. My friend's husband came from Miyazaki Prefecture.

TY: Oh, really? A professor of University of Washington is the second generation whose parents came from Miyazaki Prefecture. What was his name? Mr. Miyamoto?

YI: Mr. Miyamoto?

TY: He is a professor.

YI: In Seattle?

TY: Yes.

[Interruption]

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