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Title: Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview
Narrators: Mitsuye May Yamada, Joe Yasutake, Tosh Yasutake
Interviewers: Alice Ito (primary), Jeni Yamada (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: October 8 & 9, 2002
Densho ID: denshovh-ymitsuye_g-01-0044

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TY: And shortly after they went and picked up Dad, the, another -- those two, I don't think ever came back. But I think this must have been after they got through searching for the house, searching through the house, they, one of the FBI took me to the Maneki, that's the restaurant that they were having the senryu meeting where Dad was having lunch, meeting the senryu club, they took me there to pick up our family car. And I drove it home.

AI: Still with the FBI --

TY: Pardon?

AI: Was, did the FBI stay with you as you drove the car home?

TY: No. He had his own car. He drove me with his car, and then I drove the car home. I'm not sure, I can't remember whether he came back with me, or whether --

MY: How did he know the car was there?

TY: Well, he must -- well, it's quite obvious --

JY: That's kind of overly considerate of them, huh? To drive the son to pick up the car.

MY: I know, I mean --

JY: While they go arrest your father.

TY: No, well it was quite obvious that -- I mean, any intelligent individuals surmise that he got to the restaurant in a car.

JY: Yeah, but why would they care?

TY: Huh?

JY: That's what puzzles me.

MY: No, I mean, how did he know where to look? I mean, the Seattle International District --

TY: Oh that, I don't remember. All I remember is going after the car.

MY: So he's parked, he parked in the --

TY: I just assumed, it's Maneki, you know where the Maneki was?

MY: Uh-huh.

TY: It's right on Sixth Avenue, and, between Main and Jackson.

MY: Was it that blue car --

TY: That's where the restaurant was, so it was, car in that area someplace.

MY: Was it that blue car with red wheels?

TY: It was a Buick.

MY: The Buick?

TY: Yeah.

MY: Oh, that, you could recognize that anywhere.

TY: Yeah. I mean, I don't remember whether, how I found the car, but I found, I just remember going there, picking it up, and driving it home.

MY: That is interesting. That I didn't, I didn't think about that.

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