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MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. No. Hideo returned once after living here for four years. He returned to Japan. Then I heard they lived together.

TY: [Jpn.] Oh, is that right?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. He lived with our father, but didn't look very happy. The letter said so.

TY: [Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. As you know, my father is a little short-tempered.

TY: [Jpn.] Yeah.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. It didn't sound like they got along very well.

TY: [Jpn.] I hear there was trouble when they lived in the U.S.

MK: [Jpn.] No. No. No. Since he had nothing to do, he helped us for a while. Then my father says to him, "No, don't do that, do this," throughout the day. He complained all the time. It was so annoying and so he ran away to South Park.

TY:[Jpn.] I see.

MK: [Jpn.] He ran away to his uncle.

TY: [Jpn.] I was told that he walked all the way.

MK: [Jpn.] I heard he walked. In the middle of the night. We didn't go out in the middle of the night in those days.

TY: [Jpn.] Yes, I see.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] If he had left during the day...

MK: [Jpn.] That's right.

TY: [Jpn.] Because his family would stop him.

MK: [Jpn.] But if you walked, that was a deserted road.

TY: [Jpn.] Yeah.

MK: [Jpn.] There were no lights. Nothing.

TY: [Jpn.] It was pitch dark, wasn't it?

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. I am amazed that he returned.

TY: [Jpn.] Without getting lost.

MK: [Jpn.] Yeah. If he had told us, my husband would have taken him there. But he didn't tell us and ran away in the middle of night. We didn't know. Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] And did he leave a note or something?

MK: [Jpn.] What?

TY: [Jpn.] Did he leave a note? How did you know that he went to the Arakis?

MK: [Jpn.] Since he disappeared, we knew. He didn't show up in the morning.

TY:[Jpn.] I see. Did the Arakis contact you?

MK: [Jpn.] No. Without contact we knew. Because he disappeared, he went there. He had nowhere else to go.

TY: [Jpn.] That's right.

MK: [Jpn.] For us the Arakis were the only place to go because we had no other relatives. They are the only relatives. Yeah.

TY: [Jpn.] I see. So he stayed with the Arakis because he didn't get along with his father.

MK: [Jpn.] No, well, before the war started...

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Jpn.] So after the war started, he came once to our place. Because if we didn't go together...

TY: [Jpn.] Yeah.

MK: [Jpn.] We went to the same camp.

TY: [Jpn.] That's right.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

TY: [Jpn.] By the way, your father returned to Japan before the war. He returned because he was concerned for his own safety.

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

TY: [Jpn.] Yes.

MK: [Eng.] Uh-huh.

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