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[Translated from Japanese]

TY: Changing the subject, I heard that some people believed you could be successful if you went to Manchuria. Manchuria was occupied by Japan in those days.

YI: Many people went to Manchuria. I mean Japanese people.

TY: Is that because they were discriminated against in the U.S.?

YI: Is that right?

TY: I understand that some people said you could succeed easily in Manchuria. Did you hear someone say so?

YI: Well, I don't think so.

TY: I was told that was so.

YI: I heard that a neighbor across the street went to Manchuria.

TY: Was he a neighbor in Japan?

YI: In Japan. They encouraged us to go to Brazil. There was a large map at a railroad station. "If you don't have a job, go to Brazil," the poster said.

TY: I hear many people went to Brazil.

YI: Yes. Many went in those days.

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