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Title: Mitsuko Hashiguchi Interview
Narrator: Mitsuko Hashiguchi
Interviewer: James Arima
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Date: July 28, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-hmitsuko-01-0080

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JA: Well, how do you see your own grandchildren fitting in now? You have four grandchildren.

MH: Yes.

JA: And all are from mixed parentage.

MH: Yes, that's right.

JA: So, do you see them accepted in the community?

MH: Are they accepted in the community?

JA: Bellevue community.

MH: Well, they just about run the community, that's their problem, I think. [Laughs]

JA: Yes, they're all outstanding.

MH: They're all out there. They have a wonderful time. They came out from Bothell High School and they just had a great time with the Bothell girls or Bothell boys or whatever, and they did very well over there. And Chris and Amy is from Bellevue and they did very well at Interlake and, with their guidance of their father as the principal. It does help -- [laughs] -- but they're doing fine.

JA: So I mean, you have an all-American girl's college softball player, a fishing boat captain in Alaska for summer work, a Japan exchange student, another son, grandson that's going on a scholarship to Occidental College.

MH: Uh-huh. So we're doing, they're all doing fine and I'm very pleased with all that they all turned out so well. Yeah, that was my dream that I was hoping that I dreamed to see them all, and I want to see them all graduate college. I hope that my health holds up that I can see all that.

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