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AI: Well, some people might be wondering, after all of this discouragement, that first you were denied by the Office of Redress Administration, and then you went -- denied several times. And then you went through the Mochizuki case and were not satisfied with that settlement and you opted out of that. Then you brought your own case, and that one was dismissed. Some people might wonder, why do you keep on trying? Why, what's keeping you going and pursuing this? That somebody else might have given up by now.

AS: I don't know why. I guess most, more than us, I guess we wanna do this for our parents, to, to have the justice done right. This has been so many injustice, you know, discriminated so many different times.

AI: So, the idea of achieving justice is still very important?

AS: Uh-huh.

AI: No matter how long it's been?

AS: Take, right.

AI: Tell me, what do some of your other family members think of this, and that you're still working toward this? Or, and your children?

AS: Well, my children think I'm doing the right thing by fighting for it. And my brothers think the same way.

AI: Tell me, how did your children finally hear about your whole story? Because as you said, when they were little it didn't really come up.

AS: It really started with the Day of Remembrance and getting appeal, I mean, getting a denial from the redress movement. That's, that's when they first started asking questions and getting involved in it.

AI: And so now they're, they're very supportive.

AS: Uh-huh.

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