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TI: Talk a little bit about the family home. I mean, you had a fairly large family. What was the house like?

JT: We all lived in the same house. In those early days, my older sister, my brother, Shizuko, Mike, Jack, they went back to Japan. So there was three left, you know, and George, my youngest brother, was born in 1925. So he wasn't born yet, so the family eventually became large. But they weren't all together at one time.

TI: Okay, so you mentioned, you said three went to Japan, so Shizuko, Mike, and Jack?

JT: Yeah.

TI: Okay, the three older ones went. And where did they go in Japan? Who did they live with?

JT: An uncle back there in Hiroshima. In fact, my uncle, you know, in Japan, the oldest son inherits the property, and he also inherits the parents, to take care of the parents. Well, things have changed back there now, and a lot of people says, "We don't want to inherit the property. We would rather be on our own. In other words, what they're saying, "We don't want to take care of my mother and father." But my uncle's son thought that Jack was going to inherit the Tanimoto property in Japan. Well, Jack didn't want it, he wanted to come back. So he did come back.

TI: Okay, good.

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