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Title: Jim Matsuoka Interview
Narrator: Jim Matsuoka
Interviewer: Martha Nakagawa
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: May 24, 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-mjim-01-0035

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MN: Before we talk more about your community activities, let me ask a little bit about your job and personal life. First of all, what year did you graduate with the master's program?

JM: I believe it was '71.

MN: And when did you get married?

JM: I believe it was '72.

MN: And how did you meet your wife?

JM: Oh, we met through the... I started the Asian American Studies club at Cal State L.A. I wrote the constitution... the reason we wanted it was we could utilize their facilities free of charge. So I just got hold of an old constitution, ran through it, put our name on it and filed it. And I don't know if we had an officer or not. I don't know if I put myself down as a founding officer. I was essentially the officer, the president. And we'd begun to recruit people, and she came in as a member. And so we kind of hit it off.

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