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TY: [Jpn.] Well, then...

MK: [Jpn.] Then...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes?

MK: [Eng.] -- my father bring one, no not quite one yet, boy bring Japan. Then I go to America with my father.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

AI: [Eng.] Well, yes because in America, your mother had --

MK: [Eng.] -- yeah, passed away --

AI: [Eng.] -- had had a...

MK: [Eng.] -- yeah, that's why I think need more help, I think, I think need more help, that's why I'm coming, come to the U.S.

AI: [Eng.] So, your mother passed away when your baby brother was about how old?

MK: [Eng.] Oh, not quite one year. Then, my uncle's, uncle's third, third uncle, they take care my brother. Uh-huh.

AI: [Eng.] And what was his name, your uncle's name?

MK: [Eng.] Akira Kaneda. Same name, yeah.

AI: [Eng.] So Akira Kaneda then moved into your house --

MK: [Eng.] Yeah, yeah my house, not my house --

AI: [Eng.] Grandfather's house.

MK: [Eng.] -- yeah grandfather's house, yeah.

AI: [Eng.] And --

MK: [Eng.] They raise over there, he raise over there.

AI: [Eng.] He raised your baby brother?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah, yeah.

AI: [Eng.] And what was your baby brother's name? Your --

MK: [Eng.] Hideo.

AI: [Eng.] Hideo.

MK: [Eng.] Hideo Kaneda, uh-huh.

AI: [Eng.] So, when your father came with Hideo --

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

AI: [Eng.] -- what did you think about your father, you didn't know your father before?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah, you mean...

TY: [Jpn.] What did you think of your father when you saw him? You can speak in Japanese. What was your impression of your father?

MK: [Jpn.] Well, not much.

TY: [Jpn.] Really?

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] Did you imagine what kind of person he was?

MK: [Eng.] I think a little bit hot temper. [Laughs]

TY: [Jpn.] Hot temper. Does that mean he was short-tempered? I see.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah. Then, before the war, my father go back to Japan, because she don't want a, he don't want a die the U.S.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Because, because America and Japan, you know, war. That's why, yeah. That's why he gonna go back Japan. Then --

TY: [Jpn.] Well, then...

MK: [Eng.] -- yeah, then he died over there.

TY: [Jpn.] By the way, your father was the eldest son of the Kaneda family, wasn't he?

MK: [Eng.] Oh, yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, Mr. Araki was younger than he.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then, Akira was younger than Mr. Araki.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then...

MK: [Jpn.] Yet younger was Hiroshi.

TY: [Jpn.] Hiroshi?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah. Therefore, four.

TY: [Jpn.] There were four boys?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] By the way, I was told that your father could not come home right away after your grandfather passed away. He could not attend the funeral.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah, no. Long time. Yeah, because after the war -- no, no, no, before the war, he go back to Japan, you know so. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] So, your father was working in the U.S. and then...

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Then your mother passed away. So he came back with Hideo.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Was that because your grandfather died?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah --

TY: [Jpn.] He came back to Japan, didn't he?

MK: [Eng.] -- That's right. Because my grandfather died. He come back. Then bring a he -- baby.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] At that time, Akira inherited the grandfather's house, didn't he?

MK: [Eng.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] Why didn't your father, who was the eldest, inherit the house?

MK: [Eng.] Because, I don't know, he don't want to go back Japan, that's why.

TY: [Eng.] Yeah.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh. Look like it. Uh-huh.

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