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TI: And so this must have been, for you, kind of a different time. You had just, you were working hard during the war to help Japan win the war. And then the surrender must have been a big letdown, and now you're back home doing this kind of work. So what were you thinking?

PY: Well, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it, you know, I enjoyed the freedom and I didn't think about, too much about going back to school again. I thought this is, maybe I'm going to do it forever.

TI: Okay, so you thought maybe this would be your future.

PY: Yeah, yeah.

TI: Oh, that's funny. That's interesting. [Laughs] So what happens? What makes you change?

PY: Well, I really don't know. But one day, I guess I thought I better -- oh, yeah, okay. Three people, I knew two people in Hiroshima, and they didn't go back to school, too. But I used to, I don't know what they were doing, but I used to communicate once in a while with them, and they said they're going, next term, they're going back to school even though we were one grade drop in there, because we didn't go to school at all. So they said they're going back to school, so okay, I'll go back to school, too. So three of us did go back to school from Hiroshima. Of course, there were many, but those people I knew.

TI: And so they were going to Waseda also.

PY: Yeah, Waseda also.

TI: So same place.

PY: Same school.

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