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Title: Mutsu Homma Interview
Narrator: Mutsu Homma
Interviewers: Dee Goto (primary), Becky Fukuda (secondary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: August 27, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-hmutsu-01-0007

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DG: So was your father getting ready to come to America by then, your high school time?

MH: Probably so. He wanted to see the Christian country because that time Japan isn't favor for the Christianity. So missionary, quite a few missionary was there, but...

[Interruption]

DG: Let's then talk about, your father came by himself.

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: A year before you did.

MH: Yes.

DG: And then so what did the rest of your family -- you have two brothers.

MH: We were at Chofu city, near the Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi-ken.

DG: Okay. That's all in southern Japan.

MH: Uh-huh.

DG: So you were born in northern Japan.

MH: Uh-huh.

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