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TI: So earlier you talked about your mother. Tell me how your mother and father met.

JT: Well, I think my mother was a "picture bride." Those days, I guess that was pretty common. Because I think, I'm not sure where they were married, whether they were married in the States or they were married in Japan. I wasn't here at the time. But she comes from the same area my father came from in Japan. And she was a small woman, she's short in stature, but she worked like crazy. I mean, if everybody worked like her, you would have to hire anybody to labor work. I mean, she just loved to work. She had a passion to work, and she loved to garden. And she was real good. I mean, her thumbs was plain green.

TI: And what was her name?

JT: Riwa.

TI: And what kind of personality? She was a hard worker, but what was her personality like?

JT: She came from a very poor family, and she wasn't forward. She was sort of a conservative woman. And in those days, the male always said something and the female followed. So that's the way it was, it's the way she was brought up.

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