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DG: Now, okay so what I'm trying to get the picture of is since we're talking about the Hotel Association and you say that was the largest organization, what other organizations were there, like JACL and what else? Nikkeijinkai?

ET: Bukkyokai.

DG: Okay.

ET: Well, as far as -- like the Hotel, Mr. Uchida was a president for a couple years, huh?

TH: Of a hotel? No.

ET: Wasn't he?

TH: Which Uchida are you referring to?

ET: You know, the New Central Hotel.

TH: No, no. He wasn't.

ET: He was very good at talking though.

TH: Maybe he was a board member, but he was not an officer.

ET: Is that right?

DG: Wasn't there a chamber before too?

TH: There was Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Japanese Association too. Well, there were two different organizations, but I think they were two different, but one, I guess you would say.

DG: Now, weren't all of you as far as business owners sort of part of that too?

TH: Well, I mean we're Niseis and we were too young before the war to be part of any of those organizations. Were you or what? No, your father was involved in those days, but if the father is involved, the kids don't.

ET: A lot of it was spoken in Japanese.

TH: All of it was.

ET: And we couldn't speak that well.

YM: They had a whole bunch of, whole number of how many Kenjinkais. They were prominent. They all used to have their own picnics, the kenjinkais.

DG: That was another segment.

TH: Well, if somebody here would read these books on Japanese history in the Northwest, I think they can understand it better. You ought to have somebody in the Densho Project reading those things.

DG: Yeah, we're trying to. Okay.

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