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MY: I was not involved in the NCJAR. NC, let's see, National Council for Japanese American Redress, and let's see. William Hohri's group was NCJAR, right? And the other group was what? NCRR.

AI: Right. National Coalition for Redress and Reparations.

MY: Reparations, yeah, right. So this NCRR was a legislative, was through the legislative process of going through Congress and so forth.

AI: Right.

MY: And the NCJAR was the thing that Shosuke Sasaki and I were supporting, and my brother, were supporting and trying to give money to. It was the court case, and so I don't know if you want me to explain that a little bit?

AI: You don't really need to explain the court case itself.

MY: Because everybody, yeah --

AI: Because that's fairly well-documented. But you know, I wanted to mention how I've been told by some folks that when the idea of redress first came up, that many Nisei didn't think that was such a good idea. And in fact some Nisei even felt that it was --

MY: Yeah, I heard about it like in the 19-, late 1960s, right when it came up. And then I've been really closely in touch with Shosuke. And I remember distinctly when it was because I was in bed a lot of the time at that time, and I was talking to him on the phone a lot. And so I followed it like, vicariously. There was no way I could get involved with anything else except my children and my job at that time, but... and as I said, your husband's book was wonderful, you know, because -- oh yeah, that's the way it was. [Laughs] That was absolutely, you know, and he captured it so well in that book, it's wonderful that he was able to write it. Somebody needed to write it.

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