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MK: [Jpn.] Then...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] In those days there were about ten places where Japanese owned greenhouses. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Were there about ten greenhouses run by Japanese?

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Were they in South Park?

MK: [Jpn.] Not all in the same place. Here and there, some far away places. But we...

TY: [Sneezes] [Jpn.] Excuse me.

MK: [Jpn.] Well, we were too busy and so we did not visit one another, but we were from the same prefecture...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes?

MK: [Jpn.] Nearby, people from Shizuoka Prefecture and other people...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes?

MK: [Jpn.] There were people who were in the same greenhouse business.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Then we talked over the phone.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Some people were visiting one another, but there was nobody else from Fukui Prefecture.

TY: [Jpn.] No. Very few people came from Hokuriku region.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. Nobody from Fukui Prefecture.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] That's why there was nobody from Fukui Prefecture in those days.

TY: [Jpn.] Not even from nearby prefectures. Not from Hokuriku region.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. Nobody came.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] They had plenty of food there.

TY: [Jpn.] That's right.

MK: [Jpn.] You were okay if you grew rice.

TY: [Jpn.] Therefore...

MK: [Jpn.] Now, it's different.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Nowadays they use machinery for everything.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] So fathers and mothers are too old. So, stay in the home, then watch grandchildren.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] That's the work. So no more worry. Everybody has machines. So sons and daughters work outside and grow rice.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] So it is much easier to make money now. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] But in your days you had to do everything by hand.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes, that's right.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] So you didn't have an organization for Fukui Prefecture people and then you moved to Sunnydale...

MK: [Jpn.] There was one.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, really?

MK: [Jpn.] There was. A small one.

TY: [Jpn.] Really.

MK: [Jpn.] There was one, but I could not come up here from the countryside and so I never went there.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, there was a group in Seattle.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. There was.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes. There was, but I never went.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] The Arakis...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes?

MK: [Jpn.] The Arakis went, I hear.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, when they came to the Pike Place Market.

MK: [Jpn.] From Pike Place.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] Yes. But if not from Pike Place, Pike Place is near South Park.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] So, after they came back, they went there, I hear. Yes, but Sunnydale is a little bit far.

TY: [Jpn.] That's true.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

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