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DG: So is there anything that you want to add about your involvement in the hotels that we didn't cover? Let's just finish with each of you. Salty, do you have something?

YM: Actually, we -- financially we didn't do much and we sold it for a pittance when we left. I wasn't sure what was going to happen to us in those days.

DG: When you left for camp relocation, incarceration?

ET: I think if you understand the hotel business, like Mr. Fujii used to say, all you have to do is raise $2 per unit or -- and then half a year later or a year later, raise another $2. Nobody complain.

YM: Yeah, but they moved. [Laughs]

ET: But nobody took him up. We were charging the same old rent. So actually we threw away our chance to make some money running hotels or even apartments.

YM: Everybody would have to raise it. Otherwise, they move to the next hotel.

TH: That's right.

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