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DG: So you lived in this situation for about ten years you said and then you moved. So by this time your children were -- Kumi was a teenager pretty soon, right?

MH: Yeah. Went to -- when she was (fourth grade) came back from Amache and then went to Bailey Gatzert school.

DG: And then your boys were still preschool.

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: Okay. And then, so then you could move to Beacon Hill without any problems by then.

MH: No problem.

DG: Several Japanese were...

MH: No. I was the third one, Beacon Hill. Yeah.

DG: So did you have any problems with -- besides at the school, you mentioned at the PTA they were mentioning about hating the Japanese.

MH: Probably. I didn't know those things so nothing. And then Field Days or something and Japanese dance. I taught them to sing. Principal likes that so I did.

DG: Do you remember who the principal was?

MH: Harasina.

DG: I've heard the name.

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