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MA: So I wanted to go back a little bit and talk about your high school experience. What was the name of your high school?

CT: Most of the Nihonjins went to school at Manual. They called it initially Manual Training High School. And then the training -- because it initially was a vocational training school. And then gradually, as the population grew, they built a new high school and they just named it Manual High School.

MA: And at that point, you had mentioned earlier that there was sort of a mix of the sort of prewar Japanese Americans and then those who had come from camp, or after camp.

CT: Uh-huh.

MA: And what were those relationships like in high school specifically? Was there, was it a pretty positive relationship? Were there any tension or differences that you noticed?

CT: Not that I noticed that are any different from any at that age. You know, high school, and you know how kids get into groups and things like that. That's real kind of typical about that growing up process. So I don't, I don't really remember anything really different. One thing that was really positive is that many Japanese Americans were school leaders and elected to like student body president and those type of offices. So that was really kind of nice. But then you also had the other ethnic groups that shared that level of being the leaders of the school. So it was very, I don't remember any really negative tensions, even with the other ethnic groups.

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