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TI: Sort of... we're running out of time here, so I want go get to, you recently received an award from the Japanese government, Kunsho, for your work. Can you tell me what that was for?

CS: That was because of what I did on those anti-Japanese bashing speeches. So I was being honored for something I did twenty-five years ago. [Interruption] I wish I could have brought you, I have a big album on it. But what happened was, why I don't have so many pictures here, two weeks ago, TBS, Tokyo Broadcasting System... are you familiar with that drama "Sanga mo Yu" about the, "Futatsu no Sokoku," the brothers on opposite sides, one on MIS, one fighting in the Japanese army? There was a big drama.

TI: Oh, this was...

CS: Years ago.

TI: ...years ago, yes.

CS: Now, this TBS, it's not a sequel to it, but they're going to make a drama of the Japanese American wartime story. So they're really on the preliminary stage, 'cause they came to the museum just to see what kind of clothes they were wearing, what kind of hairdos. They're going to Go for Broke Foundation, they're going to Manzanar, interview a lot of Niseis. They interviewed me, so I gave them all the pictures I would have liked to have shown you, but they got it all. I had a couple videos and some nice photos. But my favorite photograph of Manzanar is where I'm leaving, and there's the barbed wire, and all my friends are behind the barbed wire and waving, and I'm in an American uniform and leaving. So that was my favorite picture. I wished I could have shown you that.

TI: Yeah, I'd love to see that photograph. Well, hopefully they'll return it.

CS: Oh, yeah. Well, I don't know how long they're gonna keep it, they've got it there in Japan now.

TI: Well, I'm glad they interviewed you. Because sometimes these different stories don't often... they're not considered. And so I'm glad they got in touch with you.

CS: I don't know. It'll probably be another two or three years before it's on the, released to the stations, I guess.

TI: Okay.

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