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MN: Today is May 2, 2010, we're at the Nomiyama residence in Westminster, California. We have here Tani Ikeda and Ron Yu videotaping, and in the room Tsuru Matsuda Nomiyama and Paul Minerich. And Mr. Tetsuo Tim Nomiyama will be interviewed, and I will be interviewing. My name is Martha Nakagawa. Nomiyama-san, where were you born?

TN: Alameda, California.

MN: What is your birthday?

TN: January 20, 1916.

MN: What is your father's name?

TN: Kenjiro Nomiyama.

MN: And your mother's name?

TN: Matsu Nomiyama.

MN: What is her maiden name?

TN: Danno.

MN: And what prefecture is your family from?

TN: Fukuoka.

MN: Please name me your siblings, your brothers and sisters, starting from the oldest. Your brothers' and sisters' names.

TN: My father have eight... I mean, altogether eight in the family.

MN: Your oldest brother's name?

TN: Oh, mine? I have seven altogether, and my older brother and older sister, I'm a third one.

MN: And what is your older brother and older sister's name?

TN: Don Shiraku Nomiyama and Tomiko Kunisaki.

MN: And then you.

TN: Then my brother, younger brother Kenzo Nomiyama.

MN: So all four were born in Alameda, California?

TN: Yes, uh-huh.

MN: And then after Kenzo, who came after Kenzo?

TN: Tokiye, born in Japan, Noriaki, born in Japan, and Katsu, she's born in Japan, and Seigo was born in Japan.

MN: And Katsu died in infancy?

TN: Yeah, died.

MN: What were your parents doing in the United States?

TN: Father doing yard work, gardening, I think, and my mother, housework for the...

MN: What was the name of your Alameda kindergarten?

TN: Buddhist, Alameda Buddhist Church, that's the place, kindergarten, had it.

MN: Where did you attend Japanese language school?

TN: In Japan.

MN: No, in Alameda?

TN: I don't remember that, Japanese language there, 'cause kindergarten, you know.

MN: Do you have dual U.S.-Japan citizenship?

TN: Yes.

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